Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Smith

People should be allowed to work. People should be allowed to eat.

Phil Dawson

People take for granted the skill involved in holding the football. Kyle's doing a great job, but it took us a series of weeks to develop that chemistry. We're still working on it. How many receivers drop the ball? Holders are never allowed to drop it.

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Rosemary Hollis

Originally they thought this was yet another instance of them being put on the spot to prove how reformed they can be, how transparent they can be, how democratic they can be before they are even allowed to consider talking peace,

Joe Durkin

Officer Lamb's training and experience allowed him to react without hesitation, and possibly saved the lives of his fellow officers.

Tanith Belbin

The moment we saw the flag rising, we hadn't allowed ourselves to imagine. We didn't want to create a dream that we couldn't attain because it might be out of our control.

Tanith Belbin

The moment we saw the flag rising was one we hadn't allowed ourselves to even imagine because we didn't want to create a dream we couldn't obtain for reasons outside of our control. It was definitely a new sight for us to see and one we don't even know how we're going to react to when it comes to us.

Susan Walsh

During the Clinton Administration, we were always allowed to that event. The Bush Administration never has allowed it.

Marcus Aurelius

Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret about living so many years only, instead of more? Since you are content with the measure of substance allowed you, be so also with the measure of time

David Chang

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.

Cokie Roberts

People came through. They all came together, they didn't worry about ratings, the stuff we spend way to much time worrying about. They became a community.

Geoff Downes

Of course the song, Video became known as the first ever shown on MTV, so I am grateful for having made a bit of pop history there.

Ronit Roy

After quitting my job with Sea Rock, I became a Mukta Arts flunky.

Margaret Miller

The name The Second Line' was only just for this year. But, it quickly became our motivation to continue on with the festival.

Kirk Hanson

Once the school started collecting tuition money, they became a business. Simple as that.

Michael Kazin

Once the majority of Americans became middle class, once their jobs ceased to be manual jobs, then they began to look around and choose to live in a place, in part, because of the weather.

Andy Reid

Once the groin became an issue, rest couldn't help it out. There's too much discomfort where Donovan can't run.

Matthew Perry

Actually, as a kid I wanted to be a tennis player, but I wasn't good enough, so I became an actor. Since then, I've just been lip-locking with gorgeous babes. So, let that be a lesson to all you little tennis players out there.

Anne Kelley

The bedrock of all this is: Do an audit.

Linda Hamilton

Coach McBride's wife . . . you don't see too many women, from another race, to be hugging a big, old black guy like me,

Gene Cathcart

Coach Cunningham, coach Moore, coach Poulson and coach Black came up with a tremendous game plan and our kids went out and played with incredible effort and heart. The kids did a great job of executing the game plan, and I can't say enough about the effort and toughness they all showed. This is the kind of defense that championship teams are built on.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Cold be hand and heart and bone,and cold be sleep under stone:never more to wake on stony bed,never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead.In the black wind the stars shall die,and still on gold here let them lie,till the dark lord lifts his handover dead sea and withered land.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Marshall Cohen

Are the midnight openings much earlier than usual for Black Friday? Yes, they are. Does this show that retailers are more nervous this year? Absolutely.

Abby Ferber

A real problem with Black History Month is that we focus on individuals, yet we ignore the larger social structure of racism. Students might study great people who made great accomplishments, but it isn't seen as an issue that's relevant today.

Gary Lineker

An excellent player - but he does have a black side

Alphonso Jackson

The so-called black leaders of this nation have convinced a large portion of the black community that blacks aren't capable of self-advancement.

James Callaghan

The sky turned black with the flapping wings of chickens coming home to roost.

Steve Schirripa

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

Charles Bronson

These families have been able to retain ownership of their land through the Depression, droughts, freezes and the urbanization of Florida. That is a great tribute to the many generations of these families.

Mira Sorvino

These are women who are beaten, raped, sold . . . mentally dominated, threatened that their families will be destroyed, ... They have no other options.

Susan Mitchell

This is a wonderful victory for Milwaukee families after three-and-a-half years of struggle.

E. Hurley

This is a remarkable development for families with children,

Barbara Thompson

This is a particularly challenging time for families and service members.

Roy Hallums

This is a terrible situation for Jill Carroll and her family but people have come through it and families have come through it and get back to a normal life.

Pat Sullivan

This is not just a job for first-responders, ... They're doing this for their families and their communities. Some of these guys don't want to take a break. They say there's too much work to be done. We're tired. So what? But we've got to look at it, not as a glass half empty, but half full, or we'll miss the positive. We're going to make it through this.

Jonathan Murray

The mission is to identify nice, rich families to work with. That is what we want - nice rich people. We have turned down investors with $10 million because they were jerks and didn't share our values.

Dave Carter

Organic farming is personal.

Kirk Lewis

I was from a farming town. That (background) gave me a lot of the values that I have today.

Peter Goldmark

White wheat is worth less today than when I started farming in 1972. The safety net, frankly, is gone.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.

Tommy Brock

The Mexican worker is the only people that has come and wanted to do this work in the 25 years I've been farming here.

Eli Miller

You can't make a living on the farming anymore. There's more money in the furniture shops.

John Goodman

We work hard, ... But, it does make farming more enjoyable.

Dita Von Teese

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

Charles Bukowski

You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Amy Poehler

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?

Thomas Lynch

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

Steve Earle

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

Neil Gaiman

It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.

Marina Abramovic

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

Nick Carter

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

Peggy Noonan

The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

Hilton Armstrong

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

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.

Nancy Cartwright

Ralph won't "morph" if you squeeze him hard enough

Paul Sutton

Probably the most relevant thing I can say to the truth of the story has to do with how hard it was to get her to tell her story. She was a reluctant witness the whole time.

Kevin Allison

Probably 1-3 of them who may be able to run at the varsity level this season. It's hard to tell with new runners because they get injured so often.

Judith Guest

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Kieran Crowley

Our skill level let us down big time. The harder we tried the worse it got.

Kevin Zachek

Our seniors have been playing hard and now we are starting to see our younger players step up and produce. We have moved people around to get a strong hitting lineup without sacrificing our defense. I think the players are getting comfortable with that.

Furman Bisher

People say he's hard on the younger pitchers, but he should be. He's different, but he's a winner.

David Jones

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

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Tim Baker

Homes are kept up to the 'nth degree.

Mike Rogers

Some of those old homes made it through a lot of hurricanes,

David Williams

We need more volunteers, particularly during the week, ... A lot of (damaged) homes haven't been touched and people are trying to live in them.

Sean Pertwee

I think homes are a palpable form of investment, and I understand them.

Michael Brown

I surmise there are people in New Orleans who won't be able to get back to their homes for months, if ever.

Ernesto Zedillo

I will not permit these homes to be rebuilt in the same places,

Michael Short

There are no new charges, no evidence, and multiple people living in that house.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

David Russell

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic

Garret Anderson

Very obviously, they've pitched well not making mistakes, living on the corners,

Caroline Shaw

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

Boyd Palmer

We have survived. There is plenty of living to do.

Deirdre O'Kane

I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Bruce Brown

I'm living in the middle of a nightmare.

Jose Canseco

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Douglas Alexander

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

Mats Sundin

I've told Tomas already if you see me coming, move over.

Darius Hargrove

It was tough. But we've got to move on.

Jamie Friedman

The stock moved up pretty quickly, so we changed.

Elizabeth Vargas

This is not something you just sort of go, oh, got carjacked and shot, all right, move on--you don't just move on.

Chuck Olson

That must have been pretty scary for them, having to move again. I can't imagine.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Fred Taylor

You're more optimistic than I that bootleggers will move into the regulated areas.

Tom Lehrer

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.

Ray Henderson

It was big; we were preaching it all week that we wanted the shutout, ... so we went out and we did what we had to do.

Arthur Hardy

I think Mardi Gras is a symbol that we're down but not out.

Philippe Starck

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.

Brian Aldiss

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Aristophanes

Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

Dave Ramsey

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

Alfred Marshall

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Simone Weil

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

St. Jerome

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Rich relationships lead to much more than money. They lead to success, fulfillment, and wealth.

Herbert Hoover

Prosperity is just around the corner.

Jane Mayer

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.