Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lizzy Caplan

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

Burn Gorman

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.

There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves.

Robert Kiyosaki

An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.

Mark Margolis

I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear.

Judy Swanson

Here you have a couple, and it requires both of them to work to make ends meet. If you want to get a job in Myrtle Beach you can, but it may not pay enough to get an apartment or a house. It's discouraging, and that's the major problem.

Scott Paluch

I think our league has always been tight. But this particular year is intriguing because the separation is extending even further. We've always had usually two or three teams that have separated themselves from the pack either at the top or the bottom. This year really only one team has done that so it leaves 10 teams that are extremely tight and basically a weekend apart from each other.

Suriya

Being in Loyola College exposed me to other options and gave me confidence, apart from the freedom to bunk classes. I became a merchandiser and then a garment manufacturer, and interacting with foreign buyers and manufacturing foreign brands in India gave me a high.

Bonnie Slade

Children are creatures of habit and very much depend on a routine to feel secure and function well. Kids fall apart when you change their sleep schedule. They need at least 12 hours.

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Tom Donohue

The comprehensive legal reforms enacted in 2004 truly have made Mississippi open for business.

Abraham Verghese

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Thomas F. Wilson

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

Raymond Smullyan

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

Lord Kelvin

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Lord Kelvin

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Hermann Weyl

The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence.

Hermann Weyl

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Hermann Weyl

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

Graydon Carter

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

Sgt. Helmer

If you are going to be truant, don't want to do it down here because you are going to get picked up.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Steve Terry

You couldn't have picked a better day for spring break.

Tony Heath

We picked it up in the second half,

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Mike Getkin

We did a lot of the little things to get the win. It was a total team effort.

Dwyane Wade

We have enough on this team to win games. We just have to go out and do it.

Mats Sundin

We got an experienced team this time around.