Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Kolbe

Any realistic guest-worker program must include provisions for those who are already in this country regardless of how they arrived here,

Barry Gibb

After all, when we arrived in London, we had nothing. We were unknown. We had no recording contract and no work.

Jose Antonio Vargas

After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.

Gurinder Chadha

Southall Broadway, in west London, has been a constant part of my life from the day I arrived in England as a baby from Kenya in 1962. My parents rented a room in one of the terraces off the Broadway, and I've seen it change from an ordinary English high street to what is now 'Little India.' with a confident Asian community.

Christopher Dodd

not yet arrived at a product that we can present to this body that is a bipartisan proposal.

Jennifer Kopp

The storm was so intense and arrived so quickly that people were unprepared to protect their assets. But there won't be any negative effect on the quality or quantity of next year's grapes or wines.

Laura Wasser

Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the good on a consistent basis, you may feel that taking the next step is appropriate. It is a very personal decision and most likely should be arrived upon with the help of some kind of counseling or support.

Jack Abramoff

When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place.

Peter Clarke

Everything that happens to these men from the moment they arrived on UK soil will be entirely in accordance with the United Kingdom law and the normal procedures in these cases will be followed.

John Farley

The South Bay and the Peninsula will be quite saturated with heavy rain.

Michael Barry

I've been a Pittsburgh and Green Bay fan for a long time. A lot of my family is from out East. I moved out here when I was young, but I guess you fall back on what you know.

Roy Sommer

Some teams just have a certain team's number. Look at the Cleveland Indians last year. Tampa Bay couldn't beat anybody. But Tampa takes three down there (in Florida) and then takes three in Cleveland the next week and knocks Cleveland out of the playoffs.

Kenneth Bacon

Speaking as the President's chief of staff, I think you are doing the President an enormous disservice. One, it will leak. Two, it will be politically and diplomatically disastrous when it leaks I think your invasion plan is a dangerous plan even to have on the table in the position of being leaked I would throw it in Tampa Bay and hope the sharks would eat it.

Dennis Bailey

Quoddy Bay has looked at several communities for a possible storage facility for LNG.

Clay Matthews III

Quite honestly, I live in California in the off season. Going off to Green Bay is just like two different walks of life - I hunt, fish, practice with firearms. Back in California, it's spend time at the beach, go to the movies.

Linda Sims

Perhaps Hudson's Bay decided that as long as they got a little bit of sweetener, so they could look a bit better, they would take the money and run.

John Farley

There will be rain in the South Bay and East Bay pushing away through Wednesday evening. On Thursday, there will be on and off showers, with temperatures reaching the low-to-mid 60's around the Bay Area.

Jose Ferreira

The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.

Ed Colligan

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Charles Bush

Our families are just as important to us as theirs are to them, and there shouldn't be any difference in our medical.

Joel Edgerton

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

Lori Anderson

People are willing to look for difference and pay more when they find it. Jazz it up and offer something different and people will pay for it.

Jim Kriegh

After you've been doing this for awhile, you can tell the difference between hot rocks and something like this.

Richard Aboulafia

The money makes no material difference to either side -- there is no reason for this strike to be happening.

Tim Ross

Defensively, they're a hard team to keep in front of you. We gave up penetration and we gave up second chances. And I think that proved to be the difference in the game.

Kelly Clarkson

And that's true for most of the people from the show. You don't hear a lot about them afterwards. But I think the difference is that I'd already done stuff. . . . I really know what I want, I know what I want to do and I'm working with great people.

Dave Roberts

A real difference is, there were no expectations before, and now there are. People aren't just satisfied with their team winning a division championship. They expect the Padres and Chargers to do more. Personally, I think that's a good thing.

Tristram Stuart

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Andy Williams

I've discovered that there's another way of living that I have never known. Things have changed.

Mary E. Pearson

I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.

Kim Cattrall

I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

Matt Reeves

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Trent Reznor

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Dick Armey

We discovered that Elvis had left the building,

Tom Page

We discovered it on March 29. She was gone when we found it.

Beeban Kidron

I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

Really, and this can be said now, Kenneth Gluck was threatened with the sad fate of the beheaded English hostages,

Charles McCabe

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Robert Fitzgerald

The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

John Terry

After I finish playing, maybe I will sit down and watch it properly, but I don't think I will be able to until I retire or until I win it.

Paul Parker

Some will say that tele has lost its soul with the new gear. My feeling is that if people don't want to use the big stuff, they don't have to.

Frank Clarke

It would be better for our association and the English game as a whole if we had an English manager,

Joe Jamail

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

Anchee Min

I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'

Bono

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Tim Giel

We've had as many as six freshmen starting for us this year. Five are entered in the section tournament.

Jim Morrison

TV on handsets is rubbish. People won't pay to get TV on their mobile phones. Imagine watching it on a train. You'd lose signal as soon as you entered a tunnel.

Thierry Breton

You have to understand that we have entered a period of expensive oil that will last a long time.

Jakob Bohme

When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.

John Walsh

We entered into negotiations with the owner to try to find a way that we could mitigate the fact that they had not complied with the requirements of the contract.

Jerry Hollendorfer

We entered him, and he got kicked by the stable pony the next day. He had to have stitches in his hock.

Lou Barlow

We had a lot of offers that if we'd taken them we wouldn't be happy. We didn't sign immediately with the label (Polygram) that put out the soundtrack. It wasn't the logical step for us. We entered a period where we worked really hard. We went on tour and recorded, instead of doing what was expected. No, it was about John and me doing what we wanted.

Stephen Greenblatt

the heads on the pikes may have spoken to him on the day he entered London - and he may well have heeded their warning.

Richard Holbrooke

As highly successful and secure Americans, they could have lived a comfortable life surrounded by their family and their many friends,

Richard Fisher

As a community, we're going to try to reach out and support the family as much as we can,

Mike Lookinland

The Brady family was what everyone wanted their family to be like.

Derek Sivers

A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.

Stephen Lacy

As long as the family is interested in journalism, you're OK.

Manti Te'o

As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.

Mike Johnson

That was a big mystery, not having a motive and (the defendants) being family and all. I think that was a tragedy, I think that was a travesty, I think that was hideous. That was the worst thing that you could do to anyone, but you can't just pin that on to somebody just because of what happened.

Susan Streitz

Promote a healthy family lifestyle instead of singling out the child.

Clayton Christensen

People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term.

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Candy Olson

We had to get more formal . . . and more transparent. It's not only that we do it well but also that people see it as well.

Ricky Martin

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

Joseph Towle

If it was a formal confession, I would not be able to say a single word,

Jeff Lindsay

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion.

Ian Cameron

It is a less formal car, more streamlined, more about the individual.

Bill Coleman

The idea is to have those goals, and then throughout the year, talk about them regularly with your boss. It can be something as formal as a monthly or quarterly meeting, or simply giving them good news in the hallway.

Bill Nye

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

Steve Frank

Don't let Leno and his San Francisco friends ruin our children.

Mario Batali

I lived in San Francisco from '84 to '88.

Jeremy Allen White

I mean, 'Girls': I love 'Girls,' I watch 'Girls.' But it's a show that's very coastal. People in New York and people in L.A. and people in San Francisco will watch it. But I think in Middle America, for the most part, it probably isn't watched as much.

Mark Twain

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco

Les Paul

We're switching the sounds, not so much the tone of the instrument. And when things seem impossible, it's back to grade school, soldering, re-developing - always building.

Paul Morse

There's some guys looking at him, so he needs to get his grades in order. There are people that want him. He's just got to get the test score to get in.

Eric Johnson

I was terrible my first year. In 10th grade I was still bad, but the team needed someone that small. I knew that I just needed to stay off my back for the team.

Melissa McCarthy

Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.

Frank Brothers

He's still pretty green, but any time you win a Grade I at Saratoga, it's pretty good.

Evan Anderson

I didn't know much about it. Actually, I didn't know anything. My grade school coach, Alden Dahl, he really got me interested in the sport. He really thought that I could be something special.

Mark Johnson

If I had to open up a new third grade tomorrow, I couldn't do it, ... I don't have the room.

Robert Warren

I'd give him a grade of C-plus or B-minus overall.

Bob Stanley

I knew him a lot of years in grade school,

Henry Rollins

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

Maeve Binchy

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

Maryann Keller

These were people who grew up inside those companies,

Corneille Ewango

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

Scott Weiland

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

Joy Hollingsworth

It would have been nice to play for the Huskies. I grew up watching them. It would have been nice but things didn't work out that way. I'm happy where I am.

Tim Thomas

That's what you want as a player, to play the way you grew up on the playground and YMCA. Look around here. Guys here are loose.

Mike Grell

That's not even a question. You go with what you grew up with.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

Ed Smart

As hard as this has been for our family, the response has been overwhelming.

Clive Barnes

As hard as the nails on a crucifix.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

Domanick Davis

As a running back, it's hard trying to be like someone else. You have to roll with the skills you have.

Joel Kinnaman

As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.

Reggie Lee

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Dick Jauron

A very tough guy, hard working guy, loves the game, studies the game. He's very, very into football. It's important to him.

Chris Whitaker

Away from rugby if your head's not right then it makes it pretty hard to concentrate on rugby.

Mary Pope Osborne

A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.

Paul Kariya

At home we just have to score in shootouts and obviously Sullivan and I didn't do that tonight.

Morris Peterson

At home, it's all about pride, and to lose so many at home at the start of the season, that was telling was that we had no character.

Joe Duffy

At home I'm obedient. The first day I'm back, I usually just listen to what she tells me to do.

Charlie Ebersol

As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.

Martin Rucinsky

That's where we go when we miss home.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Carrie Martin

People get really comfortable, and they don't want to leave. These people's lives have been completely uprooted. This is the only home they've known for weeks.

Thomas Campbell

O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Will Kemp

As an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Rachel Lawson

The thing about our sport is you have to turn around and it's a new game. You can't live in the past, you have to learn from your mistakes and keep moving.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

James Brolin

Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.

O. J. Simpson

As a teenager and even still now being 21, it's always love questions -- it's always so confusing.

Nicholas Sparks

A WALK TO REMEMBER is about the power of first, true love and the way it transforms an individual.

F. Sagan

At seventeen, you tend to go in for unhappy love affairs.

William Butler Yeats

A woman can be proud and stiffWhen on love intent;But Love has pitched his mansion inThe place of excrement;For nothing can be sole or wholeThat has not been rent.

Johnny Depp

a woman who would steal your love when your love is all you really have isnt much of a woman

Michael Cohen

As long as people are willing to get wet and have fun, we'd love to have them.

Stanley Hauerwas

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

Bible Bible

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Wu Dawei

a process of all six parties overcoming one mountain after another, one wall after another.

Wu Dawei

a process of all six parties overcoming one mountain after another.

Kevin Kamps

Yucca Mountain is such a mistake. There needs to be more research done on the alternatives.

Carl von Clausewitz

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

Baltasar Gracian

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

Craig Kelly

What you do once you're beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves.

Brent Weeks

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

Bob Iger

Though our mountain may be slightly smaller in scale to the one you find in Asia, it is remarkable in its authenticity.

Donald Miller

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Jane Addams

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Bar Refaeli

Have the passion and the magic will happen

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Sherdrick Bonner

San Jose was the only team willing to give him a shot.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Taron Egerton

I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.

Tom Araya

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

Shelley Morrison

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Norman Foster

Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

Randy Cretors

If we don't play San Benito, I'd probably get fired.

Robert Scoble

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

John Dryden

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm

David Mitchell

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Mike Eaves

Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.