Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Allchin

We could have just gone ahead, but I didn't think it was the right thing to do. We're setting stringent quality bars on what we do.

William Shakespeare

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

David Morton

We have people buying it by the fistful, ... The scent that's incorporated within the bars stays in the bars. I can't praise it enough.

John Stamos

Joining 'ER,' I felt like that kid who got the golden ticket in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' I've been offered chocolate bars all these years, but there had been no golden ticket. Just the stomachache that was called 'Jake in Progress.'

B. H. Liddell Hart

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Samir Mathur

We get a big surge of people at 2:30 (a.m. Saturday) because they close the bars at 2. They can come see us unless they want to wait in line at the Waffle House. It's great, because it's a big surge of people who will laugh at anything.

Lorie Cook

We dropped a little on floor and weren't quite as sharp as we'd like to be on bars and they had just enough. We have a few things to clean up. We'll get back in the gym, work hard, and hopefully we can get to the state meet and change the outcome.

Ron Burks

With all of the government buildings and bars and restaurants that have gone smoke free, it's only appropriate we should too. Health care should have been first.

Brandon Flowers

We can't wait to make the second album, ... We learned a lot on the road. When we made 'Hot Fuss' we recorded the songs just the way we played them when we were playing bars in Vegas. This time out we're going to take our time with the guitar and keyboard sounds.

Gail Carson Levine

Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.

Gene Ween

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.

Will C. Barnes

'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.

Constance Wu

The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious!

Jennifer Jones

The pieces can be difficult, but he teaches you how to feel the music and not just play a bunch of notes.

Ben Elliot

In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.

David Crosby

I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.

Dave Grohl

I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.

Wanda Sykes

I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Bill Burton

You look at the states [Barack] Obama won and wonder, well, where would Hillary Clinton have a problem and where does Donald Trump have problems? And the truth is, Donald Trump is not showing strength in any of the big states that he would need in order to actually get to 270. And Hillary Clinton is showing herself to be remarkably stable in all the states that she needs.

Tom Smith

The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down.

H. Hart

We just didn't finish. That's been our problem all year.

Lydia Parnes

We're really not here saying that the spam problem is solved. What we're saying is that we're making progress.

Mark Harmsen

We have had so many problems in our district.

Tom Leach

We have had problems ? some serious, some not so serious. They were the logistical and technical problems we expected.

Hilary Clinton

Why would you put all your C-130s in a place with weather problems?

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Beck

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Patti Smith

My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

Daisy Ridley

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

Liam Hemsworth

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

Margaret Spellings

I'm encouraged... we're on the right track, especially with younger students,

Ian Mckellen

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

Ruth Rendell

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.