Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Budd Booth

That was a big accomplishment for them. They all seem to be playing well together, and we have a lot of youth and depth, so that's encouraging for the next few seasons.

Dave Tragethon

People should make reservations, because if they wait until they get to the mountain we might be full. There are people who come up, make a few runs, come in and party a little bit, then go back out. Then there's those who come just for dinner, the party and the fireworks.

Kathy Miller

On the whole, I think they're pretty good, but you always have those few who are just immature, and, of course, they all make us look like poor sports.

James Randi

Of the hundreds of those we've tested over the past few years probably 85 percent were dowsers,

Thomas Neil

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

Isaac Gewirtz

Of the tens of thousands of pages, only literally a handful have ever been seen, and only a very few quoted from.

Harold Roberts

People see these referendums as a way to stop development, and the kids are going to suffer. I'm frustrated with the logic of people who are willing to let kids be pawns in a power struggle between adults.

Joan Bonvicini

The team is frustrated because they want to win. We're playing to lose right now and not to win.

Greg Harrison

After being so frustrated by the 'ETC,' the idea of putting something together quickly, without a lot of studio interference, was really appealing. So she (Renfrew) took the script to InDigEnt, they loved it, and we were off to the races.

Chantal Claret

That?s funny that you say that, because I was trying to think, what's the theme of this record really, and I would say passion and frustration. New rock is frustrated. I'm an incredibly frustrated person. I think you could see that in my performance. That?s how I vent my frustration.

John Logan

Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I say, 'You know what you do? I'll tell you the secret, it's easy: Read 'Hamlet.' You know? Then read it again, and read it again, and read it until you understand it. Read 'King Lear,' and then read 'Othello.'

Bruce Feiler

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.

Romeo Crennel

Because I think he was a little frustrated from the year before and previous years about his production. But, you got a new quarterback, new system. I think you have to take some of that into consideration.

John Bytheway

One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.

Bill Reath

We had a talk about it in practice. It's not our priority. But if she's close, we are going try to run plays for her. It's quite a milestone. She's had a good season and teams have been guarding her tough throughout the playoffs, which I know has frustrated her. She's handled it well though.

Kevin Frandsen

He's wearing a Giants uniform, and I'm playing for his team, too.

Ned Colletti

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.

Murray Rothbard

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

Mark Buchanan

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

Woody Johnson

It is our intention to be partners with the Giants in perpetuity.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

Brian De Palma

I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

Brendan Shanahan

Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.

Edgar Allan Poe

Invisible things are the only realities.

Clive Barker

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Chuck Klosterman

In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I do love horror movies, but I'm not the kind of guy who would dress up as a ghoul for Halloween. I might go as a member of the Blue Man Group.

Andrea Phillips

One of the tours we had scheduled - the gaslight tour of Jack the Ripper's haunts, and on Halloween, no less, was canceled at the last minute. I recommend making sure you know the numbers of your tours and destinations so you can confirm your schedule along the way. Also, though we laugh about it now, the Eiffel Tower was on strike so we couldn't go up!

Anne Rice

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

Kelsey Grabiak

No, she was happy for us. She was really excited.

Robby Davis

We're happy with the jump we had. We've got work to do, but we're moving in the right direction.

Gary Cole

We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

Rene Portland

We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.

Hines Ward

We're happy to be going to the Super Bowl, but we want to win. We plan to go there and win the whole thing.

Jud Honaker

We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best.

Randy Nelson

We're happy they're willing to sponsor us since we couldn't get sponsorship here.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

James Kelleher

There are a lot of reasons why (Wall Street) just isn't happy about this restructuring.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Alexander Lukashenko

The West will not spare any expenses, ... the last thing that we need.

Ron Ellis

The weather report last night said that the snow was going to be south of us.

Rob King

The weather is always tough. I mean it just snowed last week so you can never predict what's going to happen.

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Phil Klay

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Jane Smith

You have to know where to look, it just takes a little practice.

Paul Tagliabue

But it really doesn't matter. If it takes 2 1/2 (months), fine. If it takes 5 1/2 (months), that's fine, too.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.