Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Valliere

I think it's bad karma when you start talking down your own currency; it smacks of desperation. If this turns into a rout, that will prove that classic adage -- be careful what you wish for.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is a homely adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far

David Liss

I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.

Martin O'Malley

There is an adage in business that says that you should only compete when you have a competitive advantage. When it comes to cybersecurity, Maryland has a whole host of competitive advantages.

Bill Drake

If you have someone with great potential, if you can start them off a little higher, you get better success. The old adage is 'you get what you pay for.'

Denver Johnson

In coaching the old adage is you'd really like to come in behind someone they wanted to run out of town on a rail. (The previous staff) came in here and had great success, unprecedented success in the I-AA era. They set that high-water mark, and we fell short of it. That was disappointing to me. I'm sure it was disappointing to the fans and everyone involved in the program here.

J. J. Johnson

Everybody was saying they had caught us and we weren't that good. I'm of the adage that you have to show me.

Linda Ronstadt

Love will abide, take things in stride.

John Lumpkin

It's the Super Bowl of all gadget events. From a consumer angle, never more than today are men living up to the adage 'whoever dies with the most toys wins.' Guys are all about the discovery of new technologies. Everyone loves to come to this conference to be aware of what's coming out next year.

Delise Denham

Kindergartners are aware the mill has moved. (My 6-year-old daughter) told me the other day there's only going to be three kids left in the school.

John Cornyn

I wouldn't read too much into this enforcement-only approach. I think the leader has previously endorsed the idea of comprehensive reform, ... I'm not aware if he has changed his view.

June Daugherty

Kayla has been clutch for five years in this program. She is someone I always counted on to have on the floor in crunch time or a late-game situation, because she's so aware of the circumstances of what's going on and what her team needs to do.

Richard Rand

He was acutely aware of market value and what he felt was a fair price. He could have bought anything he wanted. He was wealthy enough, but he often passed on things if he felt they were overpriced.

E. O. Wilson

He is probably the most improved player on that team so far. He does a great job of blocking. We definitely have to be aware of where (number) 82 is.

Courtney Lewis

There are so many books, once banned, that are foundations of English literature, so it was very important to gain awareness of this threat to English literature.

GM Howson

He's got great speed, good offensive awareness and great vision. He's just got to get experience, become an elite player at the college level. He'll play in the World Juniors, I suspect, next year and hopefully, he'll become and elite player at that level, too.

James Roosevelt

HIV/AIDS continues to be a major public health issue and the Mass Red Ribbon Ride is an important call to action. Tufts Health Plan supports the efforts of the Mass Red Ribbon Ride to increase awareness and decrease the impact of HIV/AIDS in Massachusetts.

Rex Harrison

Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery ... once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.

Aaron Boone

Kind of like the Super Bowl before the game. All the fireworks and the music blasting.

Brian Urlacher

Jamal's a house. I tried to tackle him in the Pro Bowl a couple times and he's not an easy guy to bring down. He's a big boy and he runs hard. We've got our work cut out for us. We've got to stay in our gaps and be sure tacklers.

Brian Urlacher

Jamal's a house, ... I tried to tackle him in the Pro Bowl a couple times and he's not an easy guy to bring down. He's a big boy and he runs hard. We've got our work cut out for us. We've got to stay in our gaps and be sure tacklers.

Willie McGinest

I think it means nothing. If that were true, then teams that have been in the playoffs would be in the playoffs and the Super Bowl every year. I think it's a whole new season. It's a new game, it's a new season.

Haroon Lorgat

I think it does show us that we were wise not to offer any national contracts to spin bowlers this year. They have all upped their level of performance, which has been encouraging.

Jim Kiick

I think it is better for Indianapolis. They have a lot of pressure taken off of them. Now they can concentrate on going to the Super Bowl and winning.

Stephen Fleming

He is one of the world's quickest and most dangerous bowlers at the moment,

Tim Boon

He is one of a number of seam bowlers we are having a look at because we need to strengthen that department. A decision on whether he stays with us won't be made until we've had an opportunity to look at him in a match.

Adam Vinatieri

Having been in the situation before, you kind of know what to expect. But the game-winner in the Super Bowl at the end of the game is never an easy kick, no matter how many times you've gone through it. None of us are perfect. Every one of the people I mentioned, there's times where they aren't able to come through.

Kellan Lutz

Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.

Derrick Mason

I was jaw-jacking with him a little bit, but it was fun, ... I was like, 'Keep coming, rook, because we are going to keep coming at you.' He's only going to get better the more he plays.

Erick Siqueira

I was lost; I could not understand a word that was coming out of that lady's mouth. So I kept on saying huh, what, when all the sudden she raised her voice and started to yell at me as if I was mentally retarded or something.

Matt Simmons

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Roy Blunt

Knowing what is going to happen next year is going to be helpful in coming to a conclusion this year,

Shemar Moore

Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she's accomplished, no matter how you see her.

Buck Showalter

Knowing Kam, I don't think there will be anything. He's still mad about coming out of the game.

Tony Nathan

I would think with Jamal coming back, he's been the horse here for a while and we're still going to continue to ride that.

John Gray

I would think that it must be just awful, because he knows the measure by which he has fallen short. I don't think there's any doubt that he must know that all those dreams he had are coming to nothing.

Danielle Tauro

I was like, come on do it for New Jersey. I saw her kick and knew she was going to keep it going. I was thinking that would be incredible, having two Shore Conference girls winning Penn Relays titles.

Chip Sodemann

Just making the conference tournament is huge for us. The MIAA has a lot of pride, history and tradition in its programs.

Alan Marcus

John and I spoke about it a few times. In fact, we spoke about it in the conference room in Trump Tower. John then went around and addressed it with the family.

Dale Brown

It can't be taken for granted. No other Louisiana school has gone to it. Only six Southeastern Conference schools have made it.

Jim Thompson

It always feels good to win a conference match away from home. The girls played well on a golf course that we had not played well on before.

Mel Blasi

Golf is a funny game; anything can happen. Our conference is strong and well-balanced. There are no guarantees.

Michael White

He said I might be tied for the Big West Conference record for injuries.

Scott Maddox

I thought we responded well to our first conference loss. We knew a fast start was important and the guys did exactly what we needed by jumping them early.

Tom Powers

It hit us at a hard time. We only have eight conference games so it took a lot out of our season. We weren't the same.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Sherwood Boehlert

Judd Road was very important in going forward with Consumer Square and The Orchard,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Gerard Kleisterlee

There is a lack of value creation, particularly around consumer electronics,

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

Mark Boudreaux

We sympathize with consumers paying high gasoline prices. We are trying to help public-policy makers understand what makes prices high.

Philip Shaw

We think consumer spending will slow down and we're starting to see some evidence of that.

Titus Maccius Plautus

He whom the gods favor dies in youth.

William Nicholson

If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong

Virginia Woolf

If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

Samuel Beckett

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

Roberto Benigni

For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.

Zygmunt Bauman

I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

Virginia Kennedy

In fact, I think the diesel is more expensive right now.

Bill Clinton

I'll be with you until the last dog dies

Jason McCoy

I'm a cowboy. I wear a hat. I drive a 4x4 Silverado diesel truck. I've got a farm.

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Brett Johnson

It is a journey of discovery - artistically, sexually, socially.

Richard P. Feynman

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

Richard P. Feynman

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Russell Baker

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

William Wordsworth

We murder to dissect.

William James

(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.

Vera Farmiga

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Richard Dawkins

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?

Gary Pinkel

In their offense they do that, anyway. They always have some gadget plays. That's part of what they do. That's part of what he does. We do our share ourselves.

Scott Adams

I used to be into gadgets but it just seemed gadgets got boring.

John Lumpkin

What we hope to see is a gadget that can do it all.

Susan Orlean

I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway.

Julie Stradling

She's got those Go-Go Gadget arms, and she's pretty tough to play against. I think we did a pretty good job for a while on her.

Francis Ford Coppola

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

J. Michael Straczynski

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

Olivia Wilde

I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.

Jay Alford

I was looking to them as the guys that make the plays and run around and get to the ball. So that's what I'm trying to do this year.

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

John Doherty

Kevin threw three picks early, but he stayed the course, ... He's our No. 1 man and he kept the rest of the guys pushing. He didn't let anything get to him.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

DeShaun Foster

Just like those two guys were different kinds of backs, we got the same thing here,'' Skipper says.

Jake Abel

I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn't work. It only hinders their work.

William Hanson

He was a fighter, ... He's one of those guys who didn't want to live by medicine. He didn't want anything.

Jim Christian

He wants to do so well that sometimes he presses. He's trying to do so much, and he sees guys making plays, and he wants to do well.

Ed Torres

He didn't have to score a lot because of the other guys we had. But he knew we'd rely on him some more this season.

Thomas Mesereau

He is permanently living outside of the United States.

Sathya Baba

It is not the standard of living that is important, but the manner of living.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Anthony Ricco

He is living in a mud hut in the middle of nowhere with his Koran, his wife, and his child,

Virender Sehwag

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

William Gibson

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

Paul Simon

If you were to pick a role model on the court, living or dead, what role model or composite role model would it be?

Travis Hedrick

Being normal is another way of saying that your not living up to your true potential.

Annie Evans

I need to know what's going on with my living situation and through the post office is the only system I have,

Stephen Jackson

He wants to play with us. He loves his teammates. He has no problem with his teammates. He told me that personally. He wants to come back and play.

Peggy Fleming

He just loves what he's doing. And that rubs off on his skaters.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Lord Byron

He who loves not his country, can love nothing

Christopher McGrath

He'll never be the same as he used to be. He's never going to be able to do the things that he loves again.

Gary Hammond

He loves people, ... and especially people in need.

David Lyons

He loves going down the super slide over and over.

Leroy Franklin

Robert not only loves to play baseball, he loves to teach young players. He's perfect to manage youngsters.

Leo Tolstoy

If one loves, one loves the whole person as he or she is, and not as one might wish them to be.

Eric Steinbach

He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes.

Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

Chris Phillips

He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy.

Malik Rose

He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.

Sheldon Brown

He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Yoandy Garlobo

We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .

Trevor Doughty

We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.

Mark Fallon

I thought they were great, but I didn't think much about them until this year when another teacher mentioned remembering them.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Brad Shove

I think you'd see us come out more prepared to play them next time.

Nick Harper

Whatever he has planned, I don't want to see it. He can save it for next week.

John LeClair

He's going to be a superstar in this league.

Yeng Guiao

There are no ready-made superstars in this team.

William S. Burroughs

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

Voltaire

The superfluous is very necessary.

William Ralph Inge

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

William Lloyd Garrison

The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

Ryan Guzman

You always gotta continue to hunger. If you're gonna continue in any kind of industry whether music or the film industry or athletics, that drive to become better is what will eventually make you into that superstar everybody else will see.

Ken Misiak

I like this team because there are no superstars on it. They all play as a team.

James Park

Today is a very directionless market, ... It is really quiet. There's not much going on.

Donald Tusk

Today I must tell myself I did not make it.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Rachel Kyono

I think that I wouldn't be where I am today without going through the program.

Graeme Smith

He had a re-scan today and it doesn't look good. It would pretty much look like he's going home.

William J. Clinton

Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.

William Friedkin

Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original.

Will Harvey

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Sonny Vaccaro

I've got a lot of toys to play with. I just turned 64, and I'm reinventing myself again.

Nicola Formichetti

I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.

Laurell K. Hamilton

All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

Steven Wright

Do you have any toy train schedules?

Michael Bay

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

Jason Mewes

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

Fannie Flagg

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

Terri Bartlett

To say that toys make someone violent, I think, is absurd.