Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Howell

It came as a big surprise, to be honest, ... We all assumed Luke (England's highest-ranked player) would pick Paul to defend the title, but Luke didn't think that was necessary and thought the man on form would be the pick.

Caleb Spencer

He definitely has assumed the leadership role on and off the field. He took control of things this summer.

John Thompson

He just assumed that the time was so short, he hadn't served. He was born before the Great War, he was a child in the Roaring '20s, he graduated about the Depression and he married about World War II. These are very unassuming guys. It was a national responsibility, and you did your job.

George Pierce Baker

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Stephen Sondheim

My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

Paul Richards

What we've seen is that Warner and Seagram have produced figures that indicate their exposure to the music market has been poor and everyone had assumed that EMI would be equally affected,

Jill Lepore

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.

W. Somerset Maugham

Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Seth Shostak

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Phil Harrison

There are the born teachers who just want to do it. People will do it because they want to put something back into the community. Or they will have a passion for what they do and want other people to share that passion.

Drew Houston

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

Laura Schlessinger

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Valerie Harper

Golda was born in 1898. Her life parallels the life of the Jewish people in the 20th century. The text is beautiful. It gives enough history so that non-Jews can follow it.

Maajid Nawaz

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

Kazuo Ishiguro

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Graham Elliot

Kids see cooking as a creative outlet now, like soccer and ballet. It gives me hope that things like fast food, childhood obesity and the horrible state of school lunches can be addressed by kids and their parents.

Ted Williams

Kids get separated from their parents all the time. Had his parents paid attention, this little child would not have wandered off.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Anthony Robbins

Kids are the alltimechampions of questioning. What could you gain by imitatingthe innocence and curiosity of children who are completely determined to get ananswer?

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Thomas Kinkade

Keep yourself surrounded by a family that loves you. My children have never told me they dislike one of my paintings.

Melinda Eash

It can lead to depression and even suicide.

Mat Rogers

He was suffering from some depression and, as a person of his stature and a public figure, he found it really hard to talk about it to other people and therefore exacerbated the problem.

Rube Goldberg

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

Truman Capote

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Woody Allen

There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

Rebecca Wells

Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?

Rebecca Wells

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

Robert Carlyle

At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.

Robert Musil

Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and death knows this, as does whoever has fallen into the catastrophe of a deep depression, anyone who has loved a woman to the dregs, anyone who has beaten others bloody or ever come up behind another person with muscles trembling. "Losing one's head," language calls it. Emotional experience is, in itself, poor in qualities; qualities are brought to it by the person who has the experience.

Source Unknown

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

Al Jourgensen

You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.

Rick Comer

That's strict. I graduated high school with a 3.3, so I could've come to the game, I guess.

Bill Whyde

Where are all the kids who graduated the last 25 years? There is nothing to keep them here.

Kim Raver

For me, because I've been working out since I graduated college, I have to mix it up. But it's not just working out for health's sake; it's also a whole mindset for me. Yoga is really important for that.

Gaby Hoffmann

I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.

Tad Decker

This guy graduated with honors from Penn State in communications. We were very lucky to get this guy.

Jon Mattheiss

There was a lot of pressure on us tonight. We went up their last year and lost. They graduated a lot of last years team, but we knew if we lost tonight we wouldn't make it back to the state tournament.

Steve Huling

We have to find some high jumpers. We graduated two seniors who did very well.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

Brian Smith

Kieron has played some great rugby for us this season.

Larry Martin

Knoxville is a great place to live. It's a great place to raise kids.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Tre Cool

I am no longer married, so ladies... there you go.

Sara Shepard

You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!

Wallace Stegner

You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I don't feel that my life, my professional life, is married to a reliance upon Instagram.

Rod Steiger

Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.

Walter Savage Landor

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

Lisa Presley

I'm sad about this but we shouldn't have been married in the first place. It was a big mistake.

Nancy Pelosi

But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married?

Kurt Cobain

Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Ted Dexter

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Tanya Chaplin

I think that when they went out they were a little tight because they were trying too hard. But that's actually not surprising to me in that every single one of them, this is the first national championships.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Ward Grant

He was so proud of his heritage, and his national pride is legendary.

Mark Grindstaff

He has wrestled in many, many national competitions.

Sean Dockery

He doesn't get the national props he deserves. Without him, we would not be sitting here today.

Wallace Stegner

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

John Gresiak

Unfortunately, winter is going to come roaring back into town tomorrow.

Tom Waits

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Greg Martin

It can be time consuming. It took off a lot of pressure.

Iain Dowie

He did brilliantly for us in the time he was here,

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Robert E. Lee

The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.

Robert E. Lee

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.

Robert E. Lee

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

Robert E. Lee

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

Robert Cray

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.