Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Moschen

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

David Osgood

Kids are going to be kids, and if there is a backlash against either rave promoters or venues, we're going to be much less safer for it. These promoters know the limitations with which they can put on events in town. Kids are going to do this, either in an abandoned factory or in a venue where you have access to paramedics and police officers and security.

David Dye

There are tens of thousands of abandoned mines and quarries scattered across the American landscape, and some are more visible than others.

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Albert Pujols

I think that if you get caught the third time, I mean that's real bad, you should get abandoned from the game. You shouldn't be able to be caught the third time because after the first time, if you don't learn from that, from 50 games that you sit down without getting paid, that's pretty bad.

Michael Marrero

The purpose of the program is to remove vacant and abandoned structures. In all of these cases, the abandoned houses are usually fire hazards, where drugs are dealt or are a harbor for juveniles.

Bill Clinton

We told you this would happen if the Democrats abandoned their faith.

Larry Silverstein

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

Jeffrey Brown

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Takeo Hiranuma

It betrayed the public's trust over nuclear energy,

Bronson Arroyo

I don't feel like they betrayed me. It's just a tough situation. I'm disappointed. I felt like I had done enough around here that they would keep me.

Sandro Veronesi

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

William Dean Howells

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.

Paul Themba

Our biggest challenge is that Zimbabweans have never experienced any form of free and fair elections and have had 25 years of broken promises and betrayed dreams,

Bob Johnson

Everybody who used to go to the concerts felt betrayed when the series was canceled.

Roger Zelazny

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

Vicente Fox

We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

Taylor Caldwell

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

Reagan Silber

Kevin brings a level of expertise and credibility that perfectly matches the status and style of the destination we are creating here in Las Vegas.

Jim Leyland

Kenny Rogers made the All-Star team this year. He's 50-some games over .500 lifetime. He brings a lot to this party. I think we got a tremendous deal here.

Roy Williams

Kevin's our third guy right now, and he brings veteran leadership to this group. But we do make fun of him because he's so small. He looks like he's 5-7 out there next to us. But he does make plays.

J. Nicholson

Ken Holland brings a wealth of experience in preparing a team and he has had great success in selecting championship teams.

Tom Doyle

Keith brings a level of professionalism to the team that will help us get to the next level. He has been working with NBA caliber players and knows how to get these guys ready to play at that level.

Jim Kubinski

Just the name Augusta brings to mind thoughts of championship golf. I feel we are ready to start playing our A-game, and what better place to do it than Augusta, Georgia.

Rob Sands

Jon brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to Constellation Europe as we continue to implement our international growth strategy.

Robert Stevens

Joanne is a highly capable and effective leader who brings vast experience to her new position. Her close working relationship with Tom Marsh over the past few years has provided superb preparation for her new role and I am confident of a seamless transition.

Angelos Anastasiou

I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid.

Nathan Robertson

I was just desperate to win it. It was such a big occasion and right now it ranks as the best. We can win grand prix events but it is the medals you have won that define your career when it's all done.

Don Jordan

Ken was recognized early in his career as a man of integrity, strength and imagination. I hated it when he told me he was taking early retirement. I tried hard to talk him out of it.

Gary Griffiths

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large school setting it can be extremely impersonal. There's nothing worse than a student in a large setting not being connected to anything. That's the height of loneliness.

Ayn Rand

know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Santonio Holmes

Knowing I have three kids to take care of, I want them to have a dad, something I didn't have. I want to be there to support them. My mom was always a single parent raising four kids. I really want to support my mom.

Anthony Principi

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan . . . deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care, ... Whatever it costs, we need to incur that cost to provide that world-class care to an extraordinary group of men and women in harm's way.

Walt Jocketty

I would think it's a good fit, ... but that's not something for me to decide. He started his career there, and he's obviously one of the top managers in the game that's not employed as a manager. Jim is going to manage somewhere in 2006. Definitely.

David Skorton

I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to walk in here with approximately 90 seconds of experience and start telling the people who have made their careers here what the important issues are.

Trevor Creed

The Jeep Commander is a fresh expression of the essence of Jeep design. It is the modern, quintessential Jeep.

Charles Gittins

Commander Waddle exercised his judgment, and he did his level best. He may have fallen short on that day, but it wasn't criminal.

Eileen collins

Whether your commander is a man or woman doesn't really matter when it comes to getting your mission done.

Jon Gruden

It could be a few weeks. It could be the end of the season. We don't know for sure. I'll just sit here and wait until I'm told the extent of this injury.

Matt Mullenweg

I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.

Jim King

I think to the extent that property values go up out there it will have nothing to do with the arena.

Jackie Speier

In terms of transparency in total compensation, we need to look at what's a reasonable number, and to what extent it's appropriate.

Laura McDowell

They do work to an extent in smoothing things out, but you have what you have.

Wendelin Wiedeking

When we were buying, many others were also buying, and to a great extent in fact and at prices that we never would have wanted to pay.

Ned Collins

With the market's oversold condition, a small rally is expected. The extent has surprised everybody.

Sherry Jeffe

Three words: George W. Bush. His personality to a large extent got him his victory.

Stacy Palmer

As people see the extent of the damage, they're likely to keep giving in big ways.

Karen Doering

I don't always think that it is appropriate to give someone three chances. It's offensive; Jen is offended, and I think many of the former players are offended.

Andre Previn

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

Anna Kournikova

Notice how I didn't say our former USA colleague.

John Hanson

It's great having a former Governor step up -- we're honored to have her as part of the team.

Ivan Golde

There is a potential suspect, but it's not a former client.

Kerry Healey

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

Laith Kubba

We have a policy to go after Iraqi funds whether they were abused by members of the former government or spent by international bodies.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Remi Oyo

The prerogative of the return of former President Taylor remains that of the Liberian people and government.

Romesh Gunesekera

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

Linda Murphy

These are people who never, ever would have imagined themselves being homeless. Ever. If you really talk to a large cross-section of people, you realize that they're not that different from us or our uncles or our aunts. It's like we know these people.

Jim Calhoun

It's something they probably never imagined. We've imagined it, and we've done it. They could never have imagined it.

Laurence Maroney

That is something that I would have never imagined happening. You just have to take it.

Lilla Crawford

I used to be obsessed with Johnny Depp. I never thought of him as this normal guy. I just always imagined him as someone who lives in a far-off land and doesn't even exist.

Christopher McQuarrie

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

Elinor Howard

I've always imagined having roses at my wedding. It's just the way I've pictured it.

Susana Martinez

Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.

Stephen Hawking

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Carey Mulligan

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

Evan Goldberg

I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Ben Williams

Just like we need standards in software and hardware, we need standards in power utilization and power savings.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Jean Charest

It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Laura Harper

I think it was a powerful move. It was very inspirational. To be able to sit and look out on the court, it was awesome.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

J. J. Johnson

He had the power to amend the survivor's trust. He had the power to appoint the descendant's trust.

Adrian Burgos

He is a powerful voice. He reminds us what is at stake. We know we have to be sober-minded in our deliberation.

William Hazlitt

His worst is better than any other person's best.

Trick Daddy

I am allergic highly to the sun; that's my worst enemy.

Richard Pryor

I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.

Whitney Houston

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

Rudy Giuliani

Hillary Clinton's been the worst violator of cyber security so far in the history of the United States.

Nikolai Khabibulin

I have to get better. The worst thing to do is get frustrated.

Jonathan Swift

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Henry Ford

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.

James Purefoy

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.