Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Brian Jordan

As long as my knee is healthy, I'm not worried about the competition. Right now, my knee is almost there. I need to stay on schedule and keep getting strong. Once I'm full speed, I know I can play the outfield.

Jon Lester

As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and I invite them onto the field so we can chat and then watch the game.

George Santayana

As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired

John Gomery

a small group driven by Liberal interests and personal greed almost effortlessly breached walls built to separate politicians from the treasury.

Brian Phillips

That was 28 years ago. People are wrongfully arrested from time to time. He somehow managed to pass an entire federal background check and remain in service for almost 30 years.

David Bryant

Ragtime' is almost like doing an opera. The voices have to be amazing,

Byron White

Rape is highly reprehensible, both in a moral sense and in its almost total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy of the female victim and for the latter's privilege of choosing those with whom intimate relations are to be established.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Brent Venables

Athletically he is as good as they come. But he's not where he needs to be as a player.

Brent Venables

Athletically he is as good as they come, ... But he's not where he needs to be as a player.

Peter Chan

As long as they are good actors, I thought they would do well.

O. J. Simpson

As long as there are girls, we need guy bands. However, in this day, it is not good enough to just sing great. You have to write, sing and play. We want it all.

Chris Stapleton

As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody.

Richard Roberts

As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel.

John Grace

As long as you come in with a nice pair of shoes, pants and a collared shirt, you are good to go.

Josh Howard

As long as we've got a team of guys that like being around each other, on and off the court, it's a good thing for us. I mean, we can take this thing to another level.

Rodney Clark

So we opened it up and started scooping. Hopefully everyone else can have a better day than the guys in electrical.

Dan Cleary

So, yeah, the rivalry is still there. Especially for the guys that have been around the last number of years.

Philip Smith

Once we rebuild, we'll get you guys to come down there.

Nick Mangold

No way. I don't like those guys too much.

Kari Anderson

Now, if you can get 25 percent guys in a class, you're doing great. I think it's because there are so many other options.

Phil Smyth

Sometimes you have to win ugly -- the Pigs are a scrappy team and I was really happy with how the guys stuck it out.

Mack Brown

So much for hangovers. I worried about it all week, and the guys went out and did what they're supposed to do.

Flip Saunders

Sometimes in these types of situations, you want to get some organization. I thought that the way these guys play together, they can get some organization. We went through some stuff with Paul (Pierce) and he seemed to pick things up and play well off those guys.

Roger Clemens

Teams were playing us tough anyway, but maybe more so after we got back in the race. The guys persevered, and this makes that trip back home a whole lot easier.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Robert McCullum

The start of the second half is probably the worst we've opened the second half all year." ()

Henk Bekedam

Roughly half of the new infections are sexually transmitted. The other 48 percent comes from intravenous drug users, and the remaining 2 percent are vertical transmissions from mother to child.

Jay Frye

The score right before the half was a huge key. We got a turnover late and were able to take it in for a score just before the half. That was a turning point, no doubt.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Elizabeth Campbell

We just had to keep our heads up and not quit.

Michelle Williams

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

Unknown

May the roof over your heads be as well thatched As those inside are well matched.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Paul Franklin

Keep your heads up, boys. This is your job. Don't let these (suicide bombers) intimidate you. We're here for the right reasons.

Rashad Mitchell

It helped a ton. We never put our heads down and thought because we were down that we were going to lose. We just kept pushing and pushing.

Joey Harrington

A lot of people wanted to make it out as a butting heads of a battle, and it's been nothing of the sort. He's been incredible and more helpful than I would have thought. I feel terrible for him.

Joe Nelson

They get the idea in their heads that there are other kinds of art.

Kobe Bryant

This is a big road trip for us. We can't sulk for one game. We have to keep our heads up and move on to the next one.

Erik Zabel

The sprint was long and difficult, Bennati kept me on my toes all the way to the finish.

Lee Humphrey

That's not a lineup that we've played with a whole lot during the year. But we kept the lead. That's what we wanted.

Tim Parmeter

We just did what we were supposed to do, and we kept doing what we were supposed to do.

Shane Endicott

We kind of kept them outside and limited their scoring chances.

Janet Napolitano

We just kept waiting and waiting and waiting but never did see a sense of urgency from Washington.

Ryan Appleby

We just kept trying to weather the storm. It was a sea of red.

Bradley Morgan

The reason I kept this season going is because I've got 10 seniors who've been playing since the seventh grade,

Joe Girardi

Too many 2-0 counts. But he kept us in the game.

Greg Genske

I wouldn't say that. I'd say he's kept an open mind.

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Kirsten Nelson

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

Kristin Gore

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

Gerry Anderson

When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks.

Abby Wambach

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

Josh Duell

We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of the big things we've been trying to do all year with a young team.

Rashad Anderson

We didn't want to lose. I just knew if Marcus (Williams) got me the ball, I was going to knock it down, no matter what. We weren't going to lose this game.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Jason Kubel

No problems at all to report. It hasn't been sore in a long time.

Michael Boyd

Delta's problem is not labour, it's debt. Until they can restructure their debt, they are in big trouble.

Benjamin Raich

I've always been strong in slalom. This season I've had some trouble finishing, but that wasn't a problem today.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Kurt Woerner

These weren't short-term problems. Some of those violations must have been there for years.

Bernie Ecclestone

I understand now that there may be some problems with that.

Christopher Williams

I understand they had a problem yesterday, a student problem, ... I talked with Matthews and he said everything was under control.

Pat Duffy

This isn't a problem of one district. It's a problem of many districts.

Jeff Berliner

The upside to the disk problem was that we recovered the old system to the SAN.

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Fred Couples

The way it looks, a winning score of two or three-under is not out of the question.

Dale Scott

To stay with Harlan you have to score points.

Will Blackmon

To me it doesn't really matter, I don't have a favorite. I like to score touchdowns. I like to stop the offense.

Michael Owen

It bothers me when I don't score.

Olli Jokinen

If it was a win and I didn't score any goals, I would be happy.

Tim Pearce

If they score more than a 6 on this screening form, then they are not going out,

Christopher Young

'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.

Jack Kerouac

Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Milan Baros

We were down psychologically after that second goal, but there was still so much time to play,

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

Marcus Williams

I waited it out, but I was tired.

E. B. White

I would have waited for the nationwide search.

Byron Dorgan

I think this is nonnegotiable, ... You've waited too long.

Felipe Alou

We waited a long time, so if we wait another day or two or three, it's OK.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

Barbara Kingsolver

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Barbara Pym

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

Art Buchwald

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Art Buchwald

I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.

Ayrton Senna

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.