Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Walsh

Houstonians want to help, ... Obviously, if you have vacant units and you want to rent them, there's a financial incentive.

Cindy Mydland

It's a big price tag and it's a big financial commitment.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Bill Butterworth

He had three dunks and five blocks. He played a nice offensive game.

Andrew Lo

If you rank the top 50 one-day moves in the S&P 500, a fair number of those happened within the last five or 10 years. That tells you that we're in a different, riskier market now.

Tim Delaney

If you or I went to the medical examiner as total strangers, would the medical examiner have done it? ... Would he have done it for free? Would he have done it for five years?

Norman Fisher

Instead he made an announcement at five past six, saying: 'Stay inside, stay inside, we are under attack'.

Bart Thompson

It has been the last four years that the winner of this tournament has gone on to win the state championship. Let's hope we can make that five years in a row.

Kenichi Chizuka

I think our goal of winning five medals is appropriate.

Barry Mann

I had already about five or six songs written just for myself, but I never thought I'd end up being a songwriter.

Tony Russa

I know it sounds like bull, but I don't care. If you get in, you've got as good a shot as anybody, five games or seven games. It's that kind of a tournament.

Robert Blake

Paid him? ... Don't put words in my mouth, junior.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Daniel Kahneman

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

David Arquette

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

David Liss

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

David Lynch

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

David Halberstam

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

Dan Brown

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Corey Clark

For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

Corita Kent

When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Daniel Petrocelli

Some people think it's a waste of time to go to trial here.

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Susan Murray

So we're telling people they should know what they're paying.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

E. O. Wilson

so that the will of the people can be upheld.

J. J. Johnson

Once you go out and start making plays, they don't say that anymore, ... You just have to play and show people what you can do.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Alexander Smith

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Robert Wiley

We won't risk him. That's the most important thing,

Adam Hochschild

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

David Jeremiah

Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.

Connie Britton

The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

Colin Firth

But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend on brands and getting recognised actors. It's the thing that precludes risk very often, otherwise everyone would be avant-garde all over the place.

Daniel Libeskind

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

David Morrison

We understand the risk from this object, and while it's small, it's not zero,

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Hugh Prather

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Gore Vidal

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Jacques Diouf

In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need genetically modified organisms.

Jack White

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

Hanna Rosin

Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

Gloria Steinem

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.