Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Ruel

It angers me. His agents told him he's going the first day of the draft. That's what they told him. They are pieces of garbage.

S. Walker

guarded by a couple of CIA agents and some Treasury Department guys.

Tibor Kalman

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.

Nadine Velazquez

Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

Henry Harteveldt

What Yahoo has and the travel agents don't have is user generated content. Travelers will change their behavior based on what they see from other consumers.

Jon Daniels

What we had talked about at one point was a deal that would go into his free agent years, but we agreed to disagree and this was the best compromise for us at the time. It was an amicable resolution on both sides. ... With a player of Mark's caliber and how important he is to the club and organization, we certainly didn't want to get into an acrimonious setting with an independent arbitrator.

Don Maloney

History has shown to us, especially in New York, that signing the 30-plus-year-old free agents without a very strong base is very risky. It has not worked for us in New York. You have to develop a core group, then you can go out and add.

Bob Harlan

I think it sent a huge message to every free agent and particularly the African-Americans. I think it opened a lot of doors for us.

Jim Gilmore

I was an Army intelligence agent and a veteran during the Cold War, assigned to West Germany. I was the chairman of the National Commission on Homeland Security and Terrorism for the United States for five years. I was a person who has dealt extensively with these homeland security issues. I was a governor during the 9/11 attack.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Ron Prince

Kevin has expressed an interest in returning to the West Coast to continue his education closer to home. We wish him nothing but the best of luck.

Bill Schneider

Kerry's line is, 'If this is the best we can do, we're in trouble,'

Blaine Boyer

Kent Willis is the best; he taught me how to pitch. He was unbelievable, the best I've ever been around.

Michael Fisher

If you have a shorter torso, pair a great fitting long T-shirt with jeans to elongate the upper body or if your torso is long, wear a cropped blazer to give it a chic and sophisticated edge.

Danny White

I'll have a couple hundred of just family wearing Blaze shirts.

Gordon Miller

The miners tried to fight the blaze but were unable to control it and escaped to the surface.

Rod Slings

You want to be identified as a person from all directions walking in and out of the woods. Turkeys don't wear blaze orange.

Mike O'Donnell

We're not done yet, by far. We're going out in a blaze of fire.

Abdul Aziz

The blaze razed four or five blocks that housed the male Indonesian inmates,

Robert Patton

Do I think he's dangerous enough he'd go out in a blaze of glory? His criminal record doesn't indicate that.

Corin Tucker

I try to relish each of the roles I play in life. If I'm cooking dinner for the kids, I throw on my polka-dotted apron. I might don a smart blazer if I am doing a work presentation. If I play a rock show, there may indeed be glitter and fishnets involved. It's my way of saying, 'Thank you, I am glad to be here.'

Shelly Smith

I've downgraded from a truck to a Blazer two weeks ago and I'm still losing money on gas. It's even worse for those of us who don't have the capacity to move down to a smaller (vehicle).

Maisie Williams

I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

Aarti Sequeira

I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.

Robert Falcon Scott

Keep engaged in the all new popular and fancy, positive side of things!

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.

Samuel Johnson

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

Samuel Johnson

Insanity is the power of fancy over reason.

James Brandon

I'll leave Basra.... I don't fancy being kidnapped again.

Tomas Vokoun

I'm just trying to stop the puck. There's nothing fancy about it.

John Ide

It is not hiking on trails. This is a very strenuous activity.

Wallace Stevens

I was the world in which I walked.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Wislawa Szymborska

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

Ella Henderson

I love hiking to the top of mountains in L.A. and seeing incredible landscapes. It really inspires me.

Mandy Moore

I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.

Johnny Weissmuller

How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?

Norman Williams

The ECB doesn't want to take any risks with the recovery by hiking (rates) unnecessarily soon,

Emmy Rossum

Ideal date is doing something new, either hiking a new place I've not been, or learning something weird and new like pottery.... and then a meal.

J. C. Watts

If you shoot the C.E.O., they'll hire another one. The job will still get done.

Mark Neumann

If somebody walks in to me and says, 'I'm a gay person, I want a job in your office,' I would say that's inappropriate, and they wouldn't be hired because that would mean they are promoting their agenda.

Anson Funderburgh

I love Sammy, and I can't imagine moving on without him, but at the same time, we might have to hire somebody else.

Amy Adams

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

Dave Nonis

I'm not going to talk about individual people. I want to make sure that when we hire somebody, that it's someone that we're comfortable with as a person.

Konstantin Guericke

The truth is that most people prefer to hire someone who is known by someone whose opinion they value and trust. But there was never before a systematic way to identify inside connections to the hiring manager.

Al Jourgensen

Today, if I could get a job, with face tattoos, being a professor, I would do that. I don't know what university would hire me, but that's my passion.

Unknown Unknown

Talk is cheap, until you hire a lawyer.

Gary Graham

It's important enough that we should take another look at it, ... We've hired (engineering firm) HMG to take a look at the rates. There's still going to be a sewer rate increase, but it may be spread out through more years.

Chris DiMarco

I would take 10-under and go home and see how it does.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

Mark Baron

He wants match play, it's his hometown and it works for him.

Melinda Hyder

He wanted his cigarettes, his son - he told us he made enough money and didn't need it. He made us all promise we were going to vote for him. (She did.) I really think that he had planned on going home all day, but he was part of a four-person alliance, and they talked him into staying.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Harry Smith

He did not know it was coming. He's distraught. He had a whole plan to go home and resume a life with his family.

Paul Makin

He's already won all the mile races he needs.

Dennis DesRosiers

There is going to be lineup a mile long a mile wide for this plant. The winner will be the jurisdiction that will pay for it, pure and simple.

Tim Winship

I think it's pretty much inarguable that the value of frequent-flyer miles is on the decline.

James Logan

I'd just say make sure you go 10 miles per hour, then 40.

Chris Rock

I (could) see these plots a mile away. And I was 7.

Torii Hunter

He was throwing gas. He was throwing 96, 97 miles an hour.

William Least Heat-Moon

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

Andy Grove

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

James Osborne

I ran about 60 miles a week over the summer and I'm putting in about 50 miles a week now. So when I start tapering toward the end season it should be interesting.

Danielle Brooks

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.

Alan Curbishley

Once they have got preliminary discussions out of the way they will narrow it down because they want to do it before the World Cup.

Andrew Maynard

Product development will always outstrip our understanding of risk, but there is a lot we can do to narrow that gap.

James Baker

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Madeline Albright

There are gaps. We're trying to narrow those gaps,

Waris Ahluwalia

My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.

Ernest Hemingway

Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Willie Randolph

I don't think you can look at one leader, ... You narrow yourself and get into trouble when it's only one guy. Because if he isn't always there, what are you going to do?

Patrick Cunningham

It is a very narrow population and this is pretty much unique,

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

O. J. Simpson

I will not go near the kindergarten turtle

Fletcher Smith

He was nowhere near the scene of the incident. But unfortunately the vehicle is registered under his name.

Dave Harackiewicz

He was near the end of his shift, too.

Bobby Cox

I don't know what Wilson was thinking, there was nobody near him. He tried to tell me, but I couldn't quite understand what he was saying.

Jan LaRue

He has always ranked near the top for us.

Dan Anderson

In the state of Nevada there is nobody near her, nobody. She is a real competitor.

Nastassja Kinski

Just now, I've been working all the time and I don't have much of a personal life.

Roger Lemerre

It is not a personal thing for me, it is a voyage for the Tunisian team and people.

Dan Bartlett

He doesn't have a personal relationship with him.

Rob Zombie

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Tucker Max

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.

Tullian Tchividjian

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Willa Cather

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

Will Smith

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Jim Pattison

What I like most about an aquarium is that all ages, from toddlers to pre-schoolers to retired grandparents, can really enjoy the wonders of the sea.

Sacheen Littlefeather

I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.

Michael Jordan

I'm retired 99.9%. Of course, there always is that .1%.

Ray LaHood

He's like a retired prince, ... He doesn't have to rush.

Billy Graham

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

Sue Allen

We have a lot of retired women. We all keep pretty busy.

Jake Shulaw

Lance is one of the smartest wrestlers I've ever had.

Ashton Kutcher

It was the smartest thing I've ever done,

Melvin Ely

Basically, they're going to get caught. They aren't the smartest criminals.

William James

The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.

Casey Wilson

I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.

Kevin Collier

It will actually be on two flatbed trailers and will be able to go wherever they need us to go.

Edward Gorey

I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.

Stanley Clarke

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.

Francis Parkman

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.

Sean Salisbury

When you see yourself on a trailer at the movie theatre, you're kind of like, 'What? Man, this is amazing!' And it's a pretty significant role.

Jason Rogers

I like the trees here a lot more than other areas.

Bubba Watson

I know how to get out of the trees pretty good.

Bob Ross

A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.

Larry Moore

When we get some rain, we're going to have a lot more trees fall.

Ron Williams

We have approximately 600 to 700 trees uprooted and down,

Kerry Johnson

We didn't even know what trees are here, ... They've got trees there. What we have are twigs.

Richard Pryor

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

Walt Whitman

I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.

Roger Ebert

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.

Helmut Jahn

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

James Russell Lowell

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

Emilio Pucci

We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.

Rachel McAdams

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

Keegan Bradley

I realize Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods; he's intimidating.

Peter S. Beagle

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

Mark Leibovich

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.