Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Siegel

I was looking back on when Nixon resigned and actually the market held up very well around those days. It began to tank actually after Ford came in as president and the economic news began to dim.

Drew Gilpin Faust

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.

Rashad Reed

I think the first quarter determined the game. We jumped out to a big lead and then, as the game went on, we began to lose our focus a little bit. We have got to stay focused for all 32 minutes.

Everett Dirksen

I think the Congress finally has succumbed to the very infectious virus of bigness that began at the beginning of the century, when we first heard about big business. After a while we heard about big government. Then we began to hear about big labor. This whole bigness idea has intruded itself on the thinking of the country.

Janet Yellen

Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession.

Daunte Culpepper

I was confident when the legal process began that the truth would come out.

Dick LeBeau

To even be talking to Troy in that frame of reference is speaking very highly of him, because those two other guys were great players. I began to see a lot of the things that they did that Troy could do, and I think Troy has a ways to go.

Tim Phillips

I thought the ship was the coolest thing ever. Once I saw it, all these memories began to bubble up.

Robin Hobb

I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.

Sally Drucker

He carved so many of them that the house used to look like a Cracker Barrel.

Tony Russa

He's a craftsman, a surgeon. He can carve you up.

Joe Carnahan

In TV, you can carve out a beautiful little niche like 'Breaking Bad' did. Like 'The Wire' did. Like 'Homeland' did.

Bruce DiVaccaro

I gave it a try, but I didn't do very well. Most people don't on their first one. I carved a mallard; at least, it was supposed to be a mallard.

Bruce DiVaccaro

I never thought I had my own style before, until I carved that bird.

Arab Proverb

Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone

Caron Butler

I'm just happy to be someplace where I'm wanted, where I can dig in and carve out a place for myself,

Donovan Hayles

I know that to get back on winning ways was going to be hard. It's something that plays on the players' minds but I tried to keep them relaxed even though it was a victory that they would have had to carve out.

Dunta Robinson

You watch this guy carve up defenses, and you know he's going to be a special player at the next level. He's just so explosive.

Jennifer Connelly

I think it's a different type of horror film than has existed before,

Jim Rogers

with more money than knew existed in the world.

Graham Moore

I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me.

Daniel Funk

This helps fill a big gap that has existed in evolutionary studies.

Howard Smith

Construction vandalism has existed since the population in Spotsylvania started growing,

Robert Siciliano

Privacy is an illusion. Privacy doesn't exist, and it hasn't existed for quite a long time.

John Irving

Do you really want to go back to those times when orphanages existed and when many orphans were not adopted?

Edward Lazarus

And then the question becomes, can the guidelines in general be maintained or will the guidelines be thrown out? And we then go back to the regime that existed before the guidelines under which judges had tremendous sentencing discretion. That's another big question in this case.

Chris Servheen

These natural movement patterns have existed in the Rocky Mountains for thousands of years.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Zosia Mamet

I am a private human.

Walter Gilbert

Here is a human being; it's me!

Kevin Spacey

I am not an image. I am a human being.

James F. Cooper

We are all human, and all do wrong.

Os Guinness

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Russell Graham

The New World was not a nice quiet place when humans came.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I always bring my Jiffy Esteam steamer to get the wrinkles out of our clothes. It's powerful enough to press a suit.

Nicholas Burns

We are going to ratchet up the pressure step-by-step.

Paul Hatcher

We try to press offensively and defensively. At times, it seems to wear the other team down.

Chuck D.

We try to not put too much pressure on the kids. We treat it like a regular day.

Brian Giles

We've got to put pressure on them, ... They're still three down. I like our chances.

Retief Goosen

We made the putts at the right time. The pressure was always on them.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

William Vickrey

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

Zhang Ziyi

Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

Glenn Plum

The elk rut is one of the most spectacular wildlife opportunities in the Rocky Mountains.

Amanda Hoffman

We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.

JoAnne Graf

She had a rocky first game. But Tiffany has really responded.

Robert Collier

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.

Rob Bell

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

Eric Hoffer

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

Eric Hoffer

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

Paul Henderson

The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.

Pat Barker

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

Kerri Walsh

It's not a sprint to get in shape.

Nicola Formichetti

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.

Sandra Bullock

I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

Tyra Banks

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

Walter Winchell

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

Louis MacNeice

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Eric Kripke

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

Oksana Baiul

I like to listen to different kinds of music - it just depends on my mood. I love Madonna, Russian singers... I like the Rolling Stones a lot!

Kublai Khan

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

Ovid

Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]

Mark Haddon

..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.