Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Potts

As far as me getting signed at my age, the chances are less than zero. But if you've got any kind of art inside of you, you have a responsibility to share it with other people. The worst thing that can happen with any artist is not to believe in what you do.

Bryan Price

The romanticism of a voyage, for whatever age, is here and alive aboard the QE2.

Larry MacDonald

It would be hard to see this program peak out at such a young age. It has a lot of potential ahead of it. Hockey on the Western Slope is going to continue to grow. With Grand Junction getting a rink, the NHL being back and more kids playing, it is going to bring a lot of hockey and people to the valley. Hockey is infectious.

Jarome Iginla

We're around the same age. He's a good power forward. He's got good hands in front of the net. He scores his share of goals. He can get really hot too which is a good thing.

Sherry Cooper

Birth rates would plunge and the average age of the population would increase significantly.

Irish Proverbs

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Carolyn Bryan

Certainly in this day and age, with the changes in society, there is at times fast driving. Sure, they run the stop sign, but where don't they run the stop sign from time to time?

Amanda Driever

She is my helper. Being close to their age, she is an inspiration to the students. They see what she can do and want to follow.

Michael Kinsley

I have always enjoyed the myth of The New Republic's golden age. The magazine is still very much in the Washington mix. It doesn't necessarily move the debate, but I think it can stir things up.

Paul D. Boyer

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.

Chris Maher

We think that this technology has a lot of other applications. It can be applied to a whole range of problems that require tight linkage between data and computation -- tsunami warning devices (where you have a lot of data coming in and you have to make quick decisions), homeland security applications, medical imaging systems and so on. So there are a lot of other potential applications for this kind of technology.

Chris Licursi

There is no surgery involved. It's like a contact lens with hair injected into it. Then using medical adhesive it is applied to the person's head.

Robert Pozen

There is no single rule that can be applied in deciding whether or not to limit new purchases in a given fund,

Orrin Hatch

This vote should have been 100-0. But 78 senators applied the right standard in evaluating a judicial nominee - a nonpolitical standard - and that's a good sign.

Steve Miller

Obviously as we get into our discussions going forward, the reductions that GM has made are going to be naturally applied to the Delphi situation,

Wayne Oakes

Based on reasonable and probable grounds, dangerous driving was the most reasonable offence that applied to the four individuals charged.

Craig Maurer

I feel the valuation applied to that business (Western Union) has been severely depressed by being part of the whole First Data. I think the remaining businesses will be a significantly less attractive investment.

Bob Mancini

My issue with the whole thing is that I don't believe that they applied the rules correctly. They way I understand it ... is the referees are in charge. They're supposed to have a decision. They need to call goal or no goal and (in replay) determine whether it's conclusive or inconclusive. I'm looking forward to talking to the league tomorrow.

Mark McCutcheon

Even if he comes in there is not going to be a full bid for cash at 180p-plus so there is not much upside to it." ()

Sharad Pawar

We have decided to make a joint bid for Asia.

Marc Davis

We didn't like it when they bid $72 a share and like it even less at $80 a share.

Larry Walker

Softball Canada wants us to bid on the next one right away,

Elizabeth Costello

But even with the 19.4 percent reduction, we know we are not the lowest bidder for the Northwest business. In the bid we put in for Northwest, we were in the middle of the pack.

Ric Williamson

If someone came with a bid tomorrow, they'd have to wait.

Nick Pappas

I always had serious doubts about whether it was ever going to translate into a serious bid given the fact it came to us through the media and there has been no contact with the club whatsoever. The outcome doesn't surprise me.

David Parrish

Just because they're the lowest bid doesn't mean they're going to be able to produce,

Robert Faulkner

I think today's bid was a 'don't-come-near-me' bid.

Ruth Ross

A ''should'' is a ''have to'' with no teeth; it is dead energy.

Siri Hustvedt

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

Hugh Orde

Officers were shot at last night. We are very lucky we do not have dead officers this morning.

Robert Reid

Dead trees are hazardous, and they will fall in the period of a storm.

Eric Fry

Dead money that springs to life will die again.

Jessica Raine

After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.

Victoria Wood

Thanx for all you did and said, i'm so grateful dad's not dead

Pras Michel

Sometimes people say things because it sounds cool. But when I say I'm with the revolution, especially now, I'm dead serious about it.

Chris McKay

The work is very relevant to Mars because we know the surface of Mars is as dead as a doornail and any life there -- if it exists -- would live underground.

William Drummond

Of this fair volume which we world do name / If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care.

Lizz Harmon

The theme of the fair this year is All-American Fun, so we wanted to make it something that all Americans could afford.

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

John Freeman

This is an issue of fairness and doing what's morally right.

Antonya Nelson

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

Allan Houston

Even though I wasn't practicing twice a day, I was still doing some stuff, ... So it just really didn't have any time to recover. I don't think it's fair to judge it off training camp, though.

James Hill

We've got a better proposal. We've got a fairer proposal.

David Murray

Every manager sees different things in different players, so it's fair to say there will be changes.

Henry Hyde

We think it would be helpful to hear from the president and we'd like to participate in any fair examination of him,

Jason Williams

As it stands, I have fired four rounds, killed four squirrels and been visited by four police officers. The first time, they SWAT-deployed. This is silly.

Ben Nelson

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Jane Austen

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

Demetri Martin

If you happen to catch on fire during the show, do not panic or wave your arms around or scream or we wil give something to panic and wave you arms around and scream about.

Bobby Scott

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Edmund Spenser

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

Jack Jones

With humidity as low as this, you don't watch the fire creep, you just have to get out of its way, because it is moving quickly.

Dick Francis

How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch.

Anne Sexton

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins....

Debra Winger

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

Victor Hill

Flames shooting out of the roof on the right side of the house and flames were later shooting out of the roof on the left side of the house.

Annie Proulx

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

Alton Brown

You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

T. S. Eliot

Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

Stephen Malkmus

George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.

Tad Williams

Tangaloor, fire-bright Flame-foot, farthest walker Your hunter speaks In need he walks In need, but never in fear.

Tacitus

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

Steven Morrissey

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt...

Gavin Hood

I was frozen in my seat. It was the first time I had ever seen people like me on the screen.

Jerry Rubin

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

Richelle Mead

What is it with you and frozen desserts Why do you always want them?" "Because we live in a dessert.

Mike Prpich

That goes to show how hard it is to make the Frozen Four. It just comes down to which team that gets hot at the right time.

Edward Kitsis

Frozen is a phenomenon on an entirely new Disney scale.

Christian Slater

The extreme always seems to make an impression.

Winona Ryder

I remember when I did Little Women, I didn't watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.

LaVar Arrington

I love everything about being in Washington. I know I've said some things that I probably shouldn't have said out of the heat of the moment. I have regrets, but I love being a Redskin.

James Macdonald

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

Jerry Bell

And if they can place Bill's show, that takes heat off me, because people who like it can find it there.

Mark Campbell

We're watching everyone closely, to look for signs of heat exhaustion.

Fred Ketchen

Exxon doesn't set the price of oil. It's set by the laws of supply and demand. We better get used to the idea of paying more to heat our homes.

Bjorn Lomborg

Lots of people say we should fly less, heat less, and put on a sweater. But it's not going to happen. People are happy to say that for other people, but not themselves.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Bram Fischer

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Bobby Fischer

I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Al Gore

that they may be returned to us safely and soon.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Don Nickles

I ALWAYS intended to return to the private sector,

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

David Livingstone

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

Allison Pearson

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Thomas More

He travels best that knows when to return.

Raymond Carver

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

Roland Barthes

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.