Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Don Knauss

Litigation is completely inappropriate and unfounded in light of the ongoing discussions between the company and all our bottlers to respond to a major customer's request for the benefit of everyone. We are extremely disappointed that a few individuals are attempting to hijack those discussions.

Val McDermid

I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.

Joseph Cella

When it comes to debates over public policy and issues, Dean should be welcoming the voice of America's churches, not attempting to silence them.

Scott Wright

We received a call from the BB&T in Mount Holly from one of the tellers. They recognized a female subject that was at the bank attempting to do what they call a check deposit split scam.

Sam Flood

We're always attempting to balance the sounds of the race with our commentators' voices to give viewers the best experience possible. It's something we're very aware of and something that we're always trying to improve.

Aden Darity

We're not the antidote. We're not attempting to be the opposition choice.

Mitchell Ribitwer

Chris, in his mind, was basically on a mission from God. He believed in a higher authority. His mother was not going to stand in his way. He was attempting to stop the abortionists. He was attempting to stop the pornographers. He wanted to save children.

Lance Armstrong

I look forward to leading this team and attempting to give the great folks at Discovery a yellow jersey. I'm more motivated than ever.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Andrea M. Ghez

We have this interesting problem with black holes. What is a black hole? It is a region of space where you have mass that's confined to zero volume, which means that the density is infinitely large, which means we have no way of describing, really, what a black hole is!

Gerald Zerkin

You can confine him to a miserable existence until he dies.

Mike Sheffield

We have a very difficult job as police officers. Day in and day out, we confront dangerous people. It's easy to Monday morning quarterback from the confines of your living room. It's quite a different situation when you're out here on the street having to deal with it.

Peter MacKay

From the cozy confines of 24 Sussex, the Prime Minister continues to dither on tax relief for Canadians,

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.

Risa Stewart

Gyms deal in sweat. It's OK to be stinky. But in a confined space, like a spinning room, it can be unbearable. You do need to monitor yourself.

Jim Jenkins

He's a crippled man. He has one leg. He's had his spleen removed. He's been confined to his house this entire time.

Ted Saskin

He should confine himself to subjects he knows something about.

Jim Collins

He confined her to residences and hotels within Montgomery and Prince George's counties.

Jane Austen

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Blaise Pascal

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Tommy Mottola

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

Michael Kucharek

That's a very costly kind of operation. With the Visual Warning System, we wouldn't necessarily have to go to those extremes to get their attention.

Aristotle

The best things are placed between extremes.

Don Sargent

And the extremes are what make the show so funny.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Sloane Crosley

We are only as good as our most extreme experiences

Giles Foden

In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.

Barack Obama

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Antoine Rivarol

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

Joe Jamail

We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

Marianne Vos

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

Jason Goulden

Most gold mines don't see this level of public opposition.

Kevin Garnett

We have our hand on the neck of the golden goose and we're squeezing hard.

Source Unknown

Whoever has the gold makes all the rules.

Shizuka Arakawa

I think I will realize that I have won gold in the next two or three days. Many times I've thought about quitting. I'm happy I have continued.

Yo-Yo Ma

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

Keitaro Matsuda

The overcrowding problem is likely to get worse.

Anthony Chan

The overall total of nominal sales is likely to remain somewhat weak.

David Hewson

I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'

Peter Singer

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example.

Mark McKinnon

If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.

Peter Jackson

Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.

Danny Ferry

Most likely we'll have two second-round picks next year.

Kevin McCarthy

Most likely it was the snow on the power lines, or a tree on the power line.

Gang Four

Metal is what it is, when it is what it always was.

Rocco Buttiglione

metal detectors, X-rays, the usual sort of things.

Greg Perry

We received three proposals regarding the construction of the metal building.

Adam Rich

Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.

Chris Hillman

Underlying everything is a country-folk foundation. You're not going to see us do a Metallica or Snoop Dogg song.

Darius Kasparaitis

screaming at us, telling us what to do like the 'Full Metal Jacket' movie.

Brian Posehn

You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.

Corey Taylor

The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.

Corey Taylor

Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Peter McTeague

We're pretty much spinning wheels in a pretty tight range from Friday.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

John Burnside

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

Ayn Rand

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Fletcher Smith

We still have a ways to go but I'm optimistic. We'll have to wait and see, but I think we all know where the range is.

Scott Graham

Overall, I think the (Federal Reserve) is on the sidelines and we're probably back to a range trade.

Alan Hoffman

I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October,

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Chris Tarry

Swissair has been strengthening its relationship with American over recent months.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.