Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Vigneault

We always got together on my mom's side and I was about six-years-old. It was the last year my grandfather on my mother's side was alive. Everybody got together and he had a heart attack a couple weeks later. That last Christmas with him just stands out in my mind.

Robert Hill

The potential consequences of an attack are just too catastrophic to ignore,

Lisa Sampson

The personal attacks and the attacks on the group are inappropriate.

Rob Schilling

The perception coming in is that you're going to be opening yourself up to personal attacks and ridicule from other councilors.

Chris Patten

We are profoundly disappointed that Zimbabwe's parliament has passed this law, which represents a fundamental attack on media freedom,

Steve Turner

We started to attack the rim and we got to the free throw line.

Doug Galloway

We started shooting better and started attacking offensively and defensively.

Ann Cooper

We are alarmed that state-run media are publicly attacking this newspaper. We are gravely concerned about the safety of Le Journal's staff, and call on the government to take steps to ensure their security.

Pat Lynch

We believe that the nearly 3,000 people who perished during the worst single attack this nation has ever seen deserve the respect and honor of a memorial that will never denigrate America.

Colin Trevorrow

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Debauchee, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.

David Albright

And that's one of the things that has to give you pause, is that they have been thinking about this a long time, ... And so the question is, when did they start in earnest to learn how to make a nuclear explosive?

Kofi Annan

the Secretary-General earnestly hopes that all sides in Nepal will take all measures which will lead to peace talks.

Takeshi Natsuno

We are very earnest and serious about combing the small purchase market and mobile market.

William Hazlitt

Honesty is one part eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

Mark Gottfried

I think he realizes he needs to be more aggressive. He didn't have to look for his shot as much last year because we had ( Kennedy ) Winston and ( Earnest ) Shelton . The team needs him to be a scorer and he's done that.

George Herbert

Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.

Jack Coleman

I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.

Andrew Friedman

We're seeing the emergence of a new political culture, and the folks in Washington had better wake up and be responsive to it.

Fred Piccolo

It's a nice development, and I think it signals the growing emergence of our market.

B. F. Skinner

And what this paper in the Lancet really attests to is the need for us to have really good surveillance for the emergence of drug resistant influenza, and the emergence of novel strains or new strains of influenza, so that we can move quickly to prevent the spread of these influenza viruses when they occur,

John Liu

I would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it's great that this natural emergence has occurred in the lower part of Midtown, but there's tremendous potential in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well.

Martin Rees

Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects.

Doug Elgin

Nationally, I think you're starting to see an emergence of programs that may not be at the tip of the tongue of the media but are starting to be viewed very differently.

Ken Dulaney

We'll also see the emergence of truly legacy-free notebooks,

Jim Thome

With the emergence of Ryan Howard, who had a tremendous year, to be honest, I didn't really know what would happen,

Joseph Cheng

The emergence of third-generation-capable mobile phones, flat-screen televisions and intelligent automobiles will help the industry to expand further this year.

Bob Young

Whenever something like that happens, it's always a function of poor organization less than poor talented people.

Bill Gates

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

Chris Young

A lot of personal information actually functions like a password and, as such, needs to be robustly protected,

Bob Kessler

This function has always been treated like a stepchild.

Rob Smith

It's a function of the number of students that come in, and we need to plan for the housing of those students.

Mark Keenan

It's a function of the lack of investment in infrastructure.

Lauren Gelman

It's a functional test: Is what you are doing journalism?

Ralph Nader

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Kevin Landis

We play the Internet through Internet infrastructure companies. Their function is moving data.

Madonna Ciccone

I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor.

Al Franken

Hey, (Rep. Lindsey) Graham is going to give some reply. Why don't you come to this press conference?

Robert Harris

My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.

Richard Hale

Graham was declared to ride the horse as it was a 48-hour declaration race.

Bill Doba

Graham hasn't missed yet. And actually, Langley is kicking off better than Graham.

Jerret Smith

He likes the contact. They all pick hard, but running into Graham is like running into a wall. You can't get through him.

Phil Klay

Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative.

Amy Waldman

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

Alan Hansen

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

Charles Caleb Colton

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

Alan Parsons

I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

Al Sharpton

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

Akshay Kumar

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

Chris Bauer

I'm the kind of guy who would say, "Yeah, I'll do that!," and then, when it came down to it, I would be absolutely petrified. Those days have passed me by, but I would do it. If it meant that I was in a scene naked with a woman, or anybody romantic, I'd be into it.

Chip Kelly

Tommy's [Gamble] an East Coast guy, so he kind of talks fast and in quick statements and phrases, so I understood him and he understood me, and we just hit it off.

Earl Wilson

A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women - but not far enough to lose his balance.

Earl Wilson

There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.

David Wain

I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work.

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Charles Stanley

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

Alan Moore

I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

Chris Bohjalian

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

China Mieville

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

David Ricardo

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

David Hockney

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

Benicio Del Toro

I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.

Robert Freeman

She's going to be wearing this in other venues all over the world,

Glenn Close

I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.