Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Sanderson

I thought we played very well for most of the Minnesota game. But we had a 25-minute span where we didn't score a goal. We had chances but we weren't burying them. We have to do better, to play for 60 minutes, this week.

John Breaux

a great American tradition of burying the hatchet after an election -- and not burying it in each other, but rather burying it for the sake of the future of this country.

David Francis

The hospital in Sierra Leone sent a log of events of Alex's final 24 hours, and that was put in an envelope and I didn't read it for several months. But burying that information obviously didn't work and eventually Vicki persuaded me to read the log.

Thomas Pock

That's sports. You have to give that little goalie credit. He was unbelievable. On the other hand, we had 10-15 chances that should have been a goal. But whatever way you look it, it was a tough one. We tried hard and worked our butts off, but it comes down to burying your chances.

John Hewitt

It was incredibly difficult. It's like burying your children - and that's all I'm going to say about that.

Cynthia Ozick

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.

Kevin Flanagan

These were probably people whose family never picked up the ashes. It's not unusual for a cemetery to get these kinds of remains. The problem is: You're supposed to be burying them.

Marcus Aurelius

Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thus burying your poor sardonyx? Such rings are more suited to your legs the weight is too great for fingers

David R. Brower

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

Terry Holt

Kerry's foreign friends may prefer him as U.S. president, but the election is in the hands of the American people.

Brian Mason

I suspect that they want to maybe get in the game before the federal election takes over,

Massimo Franco

Italian voters are not going to be overly impressed by television footage of Berlusconi with George Bush. The overriding issue in these elections is the economy. In 2001, Italians voted for Berlusconi because he promised they would be better off: actually they feel worse off.

Wayne LaPierre

I think it may be the most important election in the history of the Second Amendment. We're telling people, if they value the freedom to own a firearm, this is the election you'd better get out and vote.

Mark DiCamillo

What will be more influential on the outcome of (this year's) election is the shape of the turnout: Who will (vote)?

Paolo Bonaiuti

Here it comes, in time for the elections, the voting statement of the Milan prosecutors' office.

Guillaume Soro

Here, in our territory, the elections will not take place on October 30.

Bruce McPherson

Historically, the turnout for a special election is in the mid-30 percent range to 40 percent,

Kimball Brace

History show that it's the first election with new equipment when jurisdictions are most likely to experience problems.

Stephen Campbell

Kentucky has a rich history, and we want to do our small part to preserve it for future generations.

Carl Hiaasen

Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

Jake Johnson

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

Christopher Shays

Katrina taught us the hard lesson that, as we prepare for future emergencies, it's important we include in our plans ways to protect our pet owners and their pets.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Douglas Coupland

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

Charles Gargano

He is the governor and he thinks it's important for the future, whether he's here or not,

George P. Shultz

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

Kathleen Hanna

That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Howard Stern

I was just at my psychiatrist and I said, 'I just got great news: We hit the 4 million mark. And I'm angry. It should be 20 million.

John Huarte

I was just as surprised by that as I was when I won the Heisman. It's a great honor and it's nice to know that even so many years later people still remember what I did in football.

Chris Eyre

I was lucky, I had a Verizon phone and it had great service all through the storm,

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

Maurice Garner

Kenyatta just had a great season for us. It might have surprised a lot of people, but not me because she has such a great work ethic.

Dan Jenkins

There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

Hamish Bowles

I kind of miss the hatchet days of Mr. Fairchild at 'WWD', when they really took no prisoners and there was sort of outrageous favoritism and its inverse.

Azzam Tamimi

I actually have a moderating influence, rather than radicalizing influences,

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we need to do that rather than just talk about it.

Luigi Speranza

We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.

Damon Jones

If you're going to boo, then boo. Don't be fair-weather fans. I'd rather not be applauded anymore.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Kelly Slater

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.

Lord Shaftesbury

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

William Shatner

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

Walter Benjamin

Only for the sake of the hopeless have we been given hope.

Walter Martin

Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.

Allison Forsyth

I'm not just going there for the sake of being there.

Kevin Whately

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

Jonathan Raban

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

Henry Ford

We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Woody Allen

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Rocco Buttiglione

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Winston Churchill

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation...

Salvatore Quasimodo

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

Wolfgang Puck

Most seasonings are based on family tradition.

Hans Kung

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

James Russell Lowell

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Octavio Paz

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.