Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laila Sadler

It also seems to be in distress. It has made two seemingly deliberate attempts to beach itself.

Brad Luna

Any attempts to turn back the clock such as this one are out of step with the values of the majority of Americans.

James Tracy

It takes only 3 to 5 minutes to kill yourself, ... We have (almost) 700 inmates. To check every one of them 24 hours a day, no more than 3 to 5 minutes apart? I'd need triple the staff to guarantee never a suicide. But our operational goal is to prevent as many suicides as we can . . . if somebody attempts it, we do everything we can to eliminate the problem and then treat the inmate.

Nina Easton

Your company is probably going to get hacked. The velocity and complexity of hacking attempts has skyrocketed, with companies routinely facing millions of knocks on the vault door.

Tim Condon

The January-February surplus was $1.3 billion wider year-on-year, which highlights the pressure on the central bank as it attempts to dissipate some of the upward pressure.

John Bolen

The deputy ... said ... 'You're surrounded, your attempts to escape have come to an end, there's nowhere to go and we want this to go peacefully,'

Rep. Lang

This bill attempts to tax one industry for the benefit of another industry. It is simply not good public policy.

Brian Levine

For a while, that can is going to take the cake. This was one of the more elaborate attempts -- it required creativity.

Jay Rockefeller

The report does further document Saddam's attempts to deceive the world and get out from under the sanctions, but the fact remains, the sanctions combined with inspections were working and Saddam was restrained.

Mark Mershon

It boils the blood and chills the spine to see a sitting judge in the midst of a mob-directed money-laundering conspiracy.

Ken Young

Here was a guy who trained and lived right ... no drinking, no smoking. He was a national champion. But he didn't know he had high blood pressure. A lot of people don't know. That's why it's the silent killer.

Tupac Shakur

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Satchel Paige

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

Vittorio Alfieri

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

Rodney Dangerfield

Comedy is in my blood. Too bad it's not in my act.

Robertson Davies

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

Robert Penn Warren

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

Robert Louis Stevenson

His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

John Avery

I think it (ball control) was the difference in the game,

Gregg Brandon

He's doing a nice job with it. It can get overwhelming, which it's becoming. We have to manage that and make sure it doesn't get out of control and we're able to keep him grounded and focused on the task at hand.

Steve Giambanco

I thought we really had control in that game.

Nelson Cundiff

I thought we were in control most of the night, but they were able to fight back.

Derek Jeter

I thought he battled. He lost some control in that one inning but kept us in the game. We had our opportunities to score but we couldn't come up with that big hit.

Michael Chertoff

I think the American public is rightly distressed about a situation in which they feel we do not have proper control over our borders, ... We need to have a comprehensive solution and one that really will work.

Satoru Iwata

I was a developer for many years before my current role, but I've never been a very good gamer. I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller.

Bruce Buck

What Montel allows us to do is to control the secondary so you can do more up front,

E. B. White

We've got to get the pitching under control where it can keep us in games.

Bill Gray

I think that our offensive line has really started to gel, ... We have three new faces up there on the front line and they haven't played a lot of football. Despite their experience, I think that every time we step on the football field, they get better.

Roseanne Roseanne

I think we're looking at a pretty strong housing market despite the fact that starts didn't rise, ... far from runaway.

Russ Yarworth

He's a very tough worker. Mentally, he's tough, despite what he might tell you. He's got a good feel for the water.

Willie Green

I know I've been in motor sport for 46 years and some might think it is time I grew up, but I am still here, despite smashing up my legs.

Jane Jensen

I love 'Gabriel Knight' and will always be proud of it. Despite the fact that I've done many other things, it seems to be the one thing that people remember. I hope 'Gray Matter' is as memorable.

Robert Hall

The health fears are what stuck out the most for me, but I think the stuff we see on television and all of the victims affected, pushes me into helping, despite the fear.

Margaret Atwood

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

Patrick Fearon

So despite the indicator today, the report for February might not be quite as strong as this is suggesting.

Stuart Hoffman

At the same time, many retailers and the automakers have had good June numbers, despite the rise in oil prices (over the last month), ... Overall, there's some relief right now that the economy is indeed strong, but not overheating.

Angelo Wright

When you're still playing, you're lifting, you're conditioning and you're still young. You can stunt the onset of some of these disabilities. But as time goes on, particularly for African-American players, things like diabetes become more pronounced. Obesity is an issue for people in general ... and the NFL can take the forefront on this by stressing good nutrition.

Ruth Litchfield

Approximately 42 percent of Americans never eat a whole grain. Yet, whole grains can help reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease, and may even help with weight maintenance. Helping Iowans understand those connections is one of the goals of the Lighten Up Iowa program.

Mary Tyler Moore

I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Herbert Sloane

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me out of the plane. My instinctive fear was the gasoline.

Mike Ramsey

What we fear, in a situation as radioactive as this one, is that we'll have a so-called stealth juror.

Graeme Smith

We are fearful it is possibly going to be sold for scrap, which would be a travesty.

Spanish Proverb

He who is feared gets more than his own.

Richard Baxter

Dangers bring fears and fears more dangers bring.

William S. Burroughs

I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

William Manchester

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

Woodrow Wilson

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

Martin Scorsese

Just when people think he gives you one thing, ... he gives you another.

Jeffrey Edelman

I think it gives them another way to become more visible.

Steve Sanders

I think it gives me more of a leadership role on the team, because some of the guys know I have a son and they see how I act,

Rebecca Loos

He knows what you want and he gives it to you and it is all about you, not so much about him, so you know that's nice

O. Singh

He judges things to be good, only as long as the Lord gives and he receives.

Latin Proverb

He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another

Drew Gilpin Faust

As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you don't say it again. If someone comes and gives a scholarly paper about something they've already published, that's just terrible. As a university president, you have to say the same thing over and over and over.

Ken Holland

He's got skill, and he gives us depth. He's a guy who could help us.

Avery Cutshaw

He's a team player. He gives everything he's got no matter where he's playing.

Felipe Alou

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Dan Svirbly

His year didn't end the way we hoped it would. He got down here for the second time and won a match again, he just couldn't quite get to the podium.

Larry Finucane

I think we will improve. I hope we will, but we haven't really done anything yet.

Adam Greene

It got our attention. Before that, in our minds we weren't sure if we'd make it. It made me want to make it a lot more. I can't speak for the others, but I hope it worked the same for them.

John Kinsey

I think this is something we live with on a day-to-day basis, unfortunately, and hope that when we get these violent swings they provide an opportunity for longer term investors.

Arlen Specter

It is my hope that the president will now send us a nominee for Justice O'Connor's spot in the mold of Judge Roberts,

Antero Niittymaki

I was watching on TV. You hope that someday you're there.

Kojo Annan

I was young and I just didn't think it through. It was an indiscretion but one for which I hope I can be forgiven.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Thora Birch

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

Simon Spurr

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Matthew Devost

There are a lot of smart people out there. And they will always find a way in if there is something they want.

Richard Baxter

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

Rodney Mullen

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

Kathryn Lasky

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

Peter York

I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.

Paulo Coelho

It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.

Philip Emeagwali

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

Sean O'Casey

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

Karl von Frisch

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

Juan Manuel Marquez

I used to like studying a lot.

Venus Williams

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

Zach Duke

I'm not unhappy or anything. It's a business. It's kind of a rite-of-passage type of thing.

Man Ray

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

Louise Brown

I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.

Karin Slaughter

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Keira Knightley

Prince William definitely isn't my type, he's too horsey-looking.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Chris Mack

That's not a 3-point shot, but it's a game-clinching type rebound.

Lykke Li

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.