Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Barton

When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.

Mollie Mayfield

After a week, we had a lot of black marks from track shoes on them. It causes an abrasion that slows down the surface, so our varsity team is not playing on as fast of courts as they may encounter.

Ed Smith

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.

Brian Knutson

Brain imaging gives us the hope of opening up the black box.

Ed Renwick

Blacks got used to winning, and whites got used to losing. Now with all of this upheaval, some blacks think that maybe they're not going to win, and some whites think they're going to win.

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Ruth Reed

Black and gray smoke just came puffing out like a train. You could smell it all over the house, and the soot got into everything.

Dustan Mohr

We've got a black cloud over us and we have to get from under it.

Ken Brown

Everybody else was the Packers or Steelers. We were the Huns, right down to our black helmets,

Matt Maldre

Every person has their own black hole inside their head.

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Ed Clark

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Carli Smith

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

James Hitchcock

Once we got to know who he (Nelson) really was, ... he was able to really bring out some extraordinary ideas.

Wayne Thomas

The theme will speak to the complete change God can bring in a person. Where you truly experience grace, you can never grow tired of singing about it.

John Enos

The old township hall was much too small. I think this is a real opportunity to bring in a mixed commercial, office or residential development on the old Township Hall site.

Joe Ridout

The most shocking thing about this is the reforms we were looking for were so modest. They were nothing more than bringing cell phone companies in line with the standards that consumers expect in their other commercial interactions.

Daya Master

Stopping the violence is essential to bring normalcy back to the lives of the people. And that would have to come by fully implementing the existing cease-fire agreement.

Sathya Baba

Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.

Mel Pearlman

This is an issue that will come up in the next generation in Four Corners. In Four Corners, it's going to be particularly difficult to incorporate. Under Florida law, a city has to be in one county, and Four Corners is in the confines of four counties.

Judy Johnson

Don't know the future, don't know when the city will be re-opened, don't know how to get back to my house to pick up my belongings that are important to me,

Marcus Samuelsson

Each city should have its own type of restaurant.

Robert Garcia

Even a small city like ours will feel a major impact if this (bill) is passed in the Senate.

David Rakoff

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Thomas Campbell

Every day, he would drive into the city at noon and sell all day, ... He returned to West Warwick most nights around 8. It was a job for him.

Jason Schwartzman

To be honest, I'm happy in LA because my family is there and I think that's a great reason to live in a city - to be near the ones you love.

Howard Schultz

With less than a month to go, it's very clear to us that the city and state officials are not showing us the kind of respect we feel we deserve.

Peter Boylan

With Kalona being only 18 miles from Iowa City and the uniqueness of the community, I can see tremendous potential here.

Graham Dawe

Alfie hasn't done any contact training and we might have to wait until Monday before he can do any.

Albert Martinez

We decided to make some investment in voter contact early on that will pay off through the campaign.

James Dickey

We listen to him on a variety of subjects. Sean is in contact with him constantly. Yes, we do talk to him and see him as often as we can.

Eric Knight

Shareholders who wish to vote their shares should contact their custodians as a matter of urgency.

Ronald Curry

It felt good to get back and get some contact again. I was worried about getting separation, but I was able to on the one I dropped.

Bob Woodward

Journalism is a contact sport, ... I was 29 when people who really knew how to shoot were around.

Pierre Dupasquier

It could be contact with some part of the bodywork.

Sylvester Croom

He says he feels a lot better. We'll see. There will be no contact at all with him.

Eric Katzman

Our recent contact with a sugar refiner indicates the pressure is not over and actually could increase due to poor crop yields.

Dakota Fanning

Dakota took Kurt to see 'Napoleon Dynamite,' because she wouldn't stop talking about 'Napoleon Dynamite,' and she was making Kurt laugh,

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Ben Crane

Get it? I'm the one who started the joke! I was walking down the last fairway with Kenny Perry , and it had been a long day, and I go, 'You knew I was slow, but you didn't know I was nine hours slow!' At first he was just flummoxed. But then he said, 'Don't sell yourself short. You weren't slow today.' I went, 'Thank you.'

Andrea Cook

My sons picked up trash for 21/2 hours one day. The next day, there was so much trash, it looked like we didn't do anything.

Michael Brown

Maybe I should have screamed 12 hours earlier.

Andy Anderson

That's the type of response parents need. They need to know what's going on now, not three hours from now.

Fern Stapleton

We can ride somewhere together for two hours and not say a word. But it's a very comfortable silence.

Caitlin Shipe

We put in a lot of work to make this happen. Mrs. Thomas puts in lots of hours of work.

Horace

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

Henry David Thoreau

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

Ben Kingsley

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

Abbas Zaidi

They wanted to make an inspection visit and we saw no problem with that but we are keen to have the itinerary officially released by next week.

Bob Baker

Watching an inspection is like watching paint dry.

L. Frank Baum

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz

Darrell Waltrip

If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting.

Jack Kerouac

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...

Richard Paul Evans

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Rick Danko

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

Zig Ziglar

You can't climb a smooth mountain

Paulo Coelho

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Raha Moharrak

I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

Frida Kahlo

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

Bear Grylls

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

William Shakespeare

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

Edward Snowden

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Donald Trump

I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the United States government, because of my balance sheet, which they actually know very well, chose me to do the Old Post Office, between the White House and Congress, chose me to do the Old Post Office.

Bob Herman

What I do, with the office schedule I don't schedule regular things past 2:30 p.m. - unless its an emergency. There are many time I have not been able to make practice. The office comes first.

Anne M. Mulcahy

I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.

Stephen Colbert

After nearly 15 minutes of soul searching, I have heard the call. Nation, I will seek the office of the president of the United States. I am doing it!

Steve Toltz

There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.

Sylvia Kristel

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

Serena Williams

Venus [Williams] has an amazing line; I love her collection. I'm always at her office. She has an interior design company and her EleVen company. They have a wonderful office space and I'm always there for the interior part and get to see what she's doing with EleVen.

Michael Scott

Wikipedia is the best thing ever.

Jason Leffler

We did not come here to run outside of the top 10,

Hayley Wickenheiser

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

Mike Parks

We just had one today outside a restaurant.

Thom Mayne

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Tim Shea

One of the things I'm trying to do, and we all need to do, is look outside our public schools.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

Joe Torre

I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility,

Amit Hazan

I like the strategy they're taking, which is to consolidate the smaller players outside the U.S. to become a stronger player,

Natalie Hall

It's freezing. If I always had to stand outside to smoke I would understand, too.

Andrew Griffin

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

Maya Angelou

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Gary Thelander

He ultimately was the source of the second victim.

Charles Harris

I would not have got to make my first film and I would not have been able to set up my second film.

P. James

We really put it together in the second half.

Barry Alvarez

I think I'll take a little time and go down to our place in Naples, Fla., before going back for the second semester.

Jennifer Egan

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Rich Green

If it worked out, they would probably put the JVM on the second or third wave of the XP rollout.

Elena Dementieva

I feel like my first serve is getting better. But the second serve, I still slice it too much.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

David Sibley

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,

Frances Townsend

Two in South Asia, two in Southeast Asia.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

Woodrow Wilson

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.