Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With dropping shots he makes him sick. --Quincy Giles

Ruth Rendell

I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

John Banville

Someone said the best gift a man can give his son is to die young. When you think about it, it's true. I was in my early 30s and I did feel freed by it, awful as it is to confess.

The Wizard

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.

Leonard Hamilton

South Carolina will test us physically. They change defenses an awful lot and try to keep you out of rhythm.

Frank Vavala

It was an excellent ,thought-provoking exercise. I think we all learned a great deal and we have an awful lot to learn.

Ellen Burstyn

It was about this school teacher who went to Jerusalem and started bleeding from the palms. It just didn't make an awful lot of sense to me.

Keeley Hawes

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

Larry Nelson

We've spent an awful lot of money, but we decided that the number one need was interoperability,

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Sass Jordan

As far as I'm concerned, you're the best singer in this competition,

Bobby Bates

As far as defensive post play, Pope is the best I've seen. She may be the best shot-blocker in the state in all classifications.

Jennifer Brown

As event Chair I can say that this was our best year yet.

Susan Hood

A series of storms of this magnitude obviously presents extraordinary challenges. Despite our best efforts, a small number of disputes will occur.

Dave Pirner

As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.

Rachel G. Fox

As an actress, I'm constantly watching different shows and films and am always gathering information and inspiration for characters and techniques to make my performances the best they can be.

Megan Hilty

As an actress, I learned a long time ago that there is a lot of this business that is just out of my hands. All I can really focus on is going to work every day and doing my best.

Ashley Lloyd

Any situation where you could have died and you don't is a lucky situation.

Ruel Lasala

Autopsies conducted by the NBI on some of the victims did not show that they died of electrocution.

Heather Evans

A woman called because she wanted to let me know that she wouldn't be in because her husband died that morning. They take this very seriously.

Roger Warren

Baltus Roll, the gentleman who owned the land and died on the land, is where the name comes from.

Josh Cincinnati

Our end goal -- I'll stop the show and die a happy man -- is if we could get Larry J. Sabato and Jon Stewart on the show simultaneously.

E. B. White

Any time a kid dies it's hard. People are very saddened about this.

Yvonne Hester

The theory is that her owner was either a truck driver or owns a diesel car.

Richard Brooks

I've lost loved ones and friends that have died out there for unknown respiratory problems.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

A day less or more/ At sea or ashore,/ We die - does it matter when?

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Pau Gasol

The thing we wanted to do is jump on them quick. When a team is not having a good year, when you jump on them early and hit them first it's hard for them to get back up.

John Leslie

I usually end up having to owe a little money so why not pay at the last minute? It is hard to get things done early for me.

John Batina

I wanted to get everyone in the game, and we scored enough runs early where I felt comfortable doing that. It was nice to play kids who hadn't got a lot of playing time.

Stuart Hoffman

The NABE panel sees the economy roaring back in early 2006 following the fourth quarter's tepid 1.1 percent growth.

Tom Taylor

The music that is most special to you and stays special all through your life is the music that is special to you in junior high, high school and in your early 20's. That's when you have time to spend on popular culture.

I. Stone

Adrienne Squire is a great player. Ash played pretty complete, did a nice job early on her.

Jon Groth

After losing that first game the way they lost it, I really felt we lost an opportunity to really gain some momentum early in the (second) game.

Ayn Rand

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Ayn Rand

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Alan Keyes

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

Alan Dean Foster

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

Brad Thor

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Pope John

As a man of peace, we pray to St. Joseph for those threatened by war and we invoke the precious gift of harmony upon the whole human family.

Matisyahu

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.

Mike Waldo

Spencer is a very gifted player who works very hard at what he does. I thought he played smart, played with a lot of intensity and had a great game.

Cato Elder

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Mike Kemp

We're a pretty good goal-scoring team, top to bottom. Parse is the high profile guy, but we've got a group of gifted scorers.

Author unknown

Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, but today is a gift that is why it is called the present

John Ruskin

Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Norm Cook

This year, he's done an unbelievable job. He's just one of these gifted goal-scorers. He's got a great scoring touch.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Steve Sanders

Some people don't see that I have different struggles on and off the field, ... It made me want to become a better man than I was.

Candace Bushnell

One has to be open-minded when the right man comes along. And I know it's freaky, but this just seems like the natural thing to do.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

John Bunyan

So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow.

David Robinson

Some people talked about Tim like a dog. The way that man has performed over the years, I don't understand that.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

James F. Byrnes

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Hebrew Proverb

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Peggy Lee

Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Aretha Franklin

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Baha'u'llah

O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.

Art Buchwald

The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.

Brad Paisley

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard

Brad Paisley

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

Brad Paisley

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

Brad Paisley

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.