Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Marc Basnight

Ham was a great senator and a great North Carolinian, but first and foremost he was a great American. He was the most special among us and he will be missed - God gave us the greatest when he gave us Ham.

George Ryan

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Trevor Noah

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Dennis Patterson

It apparently was a similar type deal. They operated the same pitch, the same approach, no matter the government level.

Alan Feldman

Here we watch it minute by minute. When you force it underground, anything is possible. Apparently that's a risk the NCAA is willing to take.

Mark Valley

I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

Meaghan Jette Martin

I am good at baking. I don't know if that counts as a talent, but I love to bake. Everybody says I'm good at it, so apparently I make the best banana bread.

Ryan Baker

I noticed nothing was tampered with. All my gas was apparently there from the night before.

David Vitter

I just think the state is going to have to be involved in that helpful way, ... I just want to express my deep frustration about folks in Baton Rouge who apparently are completely focused on why this can't work instead of figuring out how to make it work so we can get these communities through these very crucial next several months.

Nick Harkaway

I never engage negatively with reviewers. If someone says something that enrages me, I do what I do on stage. I make a joke about myself and move on. Sometimes people say things that are manifestly wrong or even apparently malicious. That's fine, too. It's a response.

Rita Ora

I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.

Jennifer Fallon

I'm blessed with three children who actually aren't terribly impressed with pandering to my ego, and one of my children has a bit of a problem with the sex scenes because when she reads the stuff, she hears my voice in her head, and apparently reading a sex scene written by your mother with her describing it is rather off-putting!

Nick Saban

Just the opposite, ... I think we should do a lot of stuff. I don't think going in the bag is going to help us. Because it doesn't matter what we do ? we still have to execute and do it with discipline. It's not what we're doing. It's how we're doing what we're doing. Getting conservative about it is not going to help us at all.

Crystal Candy

He used various techniques, including having other people distract the employees. He'd then go in and disconnect the register, put it in a trash bag and then leave the stores.

Dawn Chriss

I don't even think we unpacked our bags last year. We didn't want to lose. We wanted to go to the mall, look around a little, get some TV time in.

Adam Kennedy

I had him played a little to the hole, a step closer to the bag to try and make the double play. I could see on the first two pitches that he wasn't trying to do too much. I took a step to my right to try and cover a little more ground.

Steve Rhode

If you have lived a lifestyle where you find it OK not to save and you live month to month, then $2,000 must seem like a bag of gold falling from the sky.

Jason Richardson

Hey, a guy could come in with baggy jeans, a do-rag and have a Ph.D., and a person who comes in with a suit could be a three-time felon. So, it's not what you wear, it's how you present yourself.

Gwen Stefani

I'm happy to have L.A.M.B. participate in the PSP accessories show as I've always loved designing bags and accessories, ... It's all about creativity at the end of the day, whether you're talking about fashion, technology or music, and that's what my L.A.M.B. bags are about.

Thomas Burke

I'll be moving in with a sleeping bag tomorrow.

Astro Teller

If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.

Joe Pistone

John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,

Ruben Donis

We are going to monitor all cases of human exposure, but at this point there is no reason to panic.

Anne McLellan

It is going to take a very long time for them to be able to resume their lives and even in some cases I'm sure determine whether they want to return to homes that have been largely destroyed or whether they want to start over somewhere else.

James Laughlin

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.

Matt Taibbi

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.

Jason Calacanis

I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.

Jim Harlan

I don't know of any cases that have actually ended up in the hospital, but it's gotten close.

Condoleezza Rice

He talked... about the cases of these American citizens and permanent residents and the importance of transparency, the importance of humanitarian considerations,

Dirk Kempthorne

He has long-standing ties in the community, and will have an excellent temperament for the bench, ... He has litigated some very complex cases and clearly has demonstrated a keen knowledge of the law.

Gretchen Dykstra

There is no confusion about walking into something where people are going to be fighting forever.

Fiorenzo Facchini

It is not correct... to stray from the field of science while pretending to do science. It only creates confusion between the scientific plane and those that are philosophical or religious.

James Fitzgerald

It is not good enough that a measure of this magnitude is signed into law while the government department responsible adopts a policy of silence and allows panic and confusion to run rampant.

Rebecca West

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

William S. Burroughs

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

William J. Clinton

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

Vivienne Westwood

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

Wallace Stevens

You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins Nor stand there making orotund consolations. He shares the confusions of intelligence.

W. H. Auden

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Toussaint Tyler

He talks to you like a normal human being and tells you what he wants you to do.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Sun Yuxi

In some Western countries, including in the United States, some people have ignored the overall development of China's human rights.

Adrian Molina

Immigrants are not felons. They are human beings.

P. J. Harvey

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

John Scully

He has always been a real straight shooting type of old school Italian guy.

Robert Cray

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

Rocky Marciano

Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

Yotam Ottolenghi

Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!

Marco Muller

I needed Quentin. I knew he would be very loud as a spokesman for Italian B movies.

James Fenton

A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.

George Friedman

Italy is the fourth-largest economy in Europe and the eighth-largest economy in the world, and its banking system is collapsing. And Germany is desperate. It must maintain its standard of living. It can only do that with exports and Deutsche Bank is very exposed to Italian debt. But so is the rest of Europe.

Johnny Ramone

As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

James Franco

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Ryan Reynolds

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

Tyson Chandler

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

Walt Disney

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

Sarah Dessen

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

Rod Serling

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.

William Butler Yeats

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Theodore Dreiser

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

Azzedine Alaia

'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.