Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Coupland

I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away.

Billy Bush

Thirty-nine million people watched last night. It's the most watched episode ever in Idol's history. Here we are in season five. How do you explain it striking a cord now?

Pat Wood

They're just too different. You can't say throw me a cord so we can stay on,

Mekhi Phifer

With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

Jack Horner

Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

Glen Richardson

To me its childish. Things could be handled in a professional cordial manner no matter who you are.

Atharva Veda

Maintaining cordial relationship with friends help us in improving upon our own capabilities.

Trent Nelson

Plus we're not going to have that same unity we had in high school. Now it's just Cord and Patch and Trent and Louie-and Jeremy's off on his own. It's tough but we need to make those friendships again, that's the only way to win.

Kenneth Brown

Because of where the discs rupture in these little dogs and because of the length of the spinal cord in dogs, they tend to put direct pressure either on the spinal cord in the back or the neck. They're not just painful nerve pressures, they're actually paralyzing injuries.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

Dwight Yorke

Keep the faith. We know we are heading in the right direction.

J. M. Roberts

John is one of the top parks and recreation directors I've seen. He has a great feel for the needs of the community, and that's reflected in the facilities.

David Thwaites

I suspect it's going to be a fairly weaker open. Stocks are still looking for direction in Europe -- there are no big macro drivers today.

Charles Blood

I think investors should be back in the market. The direction is up from here.

Sean Penn

I think it's much more important to direct movies but if it's going to take five years between each one then I'll have to make up for that.

Vicky Gill

I always feel lost when he's not there. I need someone to direct me and push me and then hold me back when I'm doing too much. It's nice to be back and have a mentor there to help me out.

Tom Burt

He can't tell them what to do, he can't direct them, he can't manage them.

George Herbert Mead

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Randy Bennett

He just needs somebody that understands these kinds of dogs.

Mark Hines

We're pleased that it is working and making the dogs happier.

Shannon Elizabeth

I have been trying to find gas masks for dogs. I have a vet friend who said that somebody in his office got some

Dick Samuels

I couldn't script a better way to spend my time. It's all about good dogs and good people.

Robert Browning

Others mistrust and say: "But time escapes - live now or never!" He said: "What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes - Man has For ever

Gloria Estefan

I'm totally animal-oriented, ... I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

Carlos Arreola

I never intended to do anything with dogs or anything except donkeys, but there was such a big need with the humane society.

Jennifer Wagner

I'm not a dog-owner, to my dogs, I'm their mother.

Jesse Miller

I'm devastated. I lost four dogs in the fire. That's very distressing.

Bob Paduchik

Ken Blackwell is either a huge hypocrite or very incompetent.

Billy Gillispie

Joe shouldn't have shot it. He knows that. It was my fault. I probably should have either called another timeout right there and told them exactly what we wanted to do or just reminded Joe that we didn't really need to have a 3-point shot at that point.

Peter Greenaway

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative - either intellectually or viscerally - in the films one makes.

Jim Rice

I think it is one of the most picturesque views that we have encountered in either mission thus far.

Shimon Peres

It can't happen as long as there is still shooting. Either there is shooting or there are talks,

Karan Johar

It can be either of the two Fridays.

Steve Smith

He can play either position equally well, and I don't often say that about guards. I hear that and when I see most kids, I think they become one or the other. He can honestly play either. And that helps.

Richard Berner

Greenspan's remarks will be significant, either because of what he does say or what he doesn't say, ... They will move rates higher this year but the timing of that may have changed.

Brian Perry

This was a good tournament, regardless of the outcome. This was a team that gave us a precise feedback of where we stand. Leading up to the match I really didn't want it to settle in with the kids that this was a given loss. I think all of us kind of knew it could go either way.

Pete Carroll

He's going to have an operation. It's going to be a lengthy recovery.

Robert Rottersman

What I'm going to try and do here is take a rather lengthy report and summarize it.

William Godwin

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

John Burns

I have talked to them at length about it in my office.

Kate Atkinson

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

Moe Ammar

It's a very, very lengthy process. We have a little over 500 members today, but out of the 500, we only pick four.

Edwin Way Teale

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Jacques Chiron

It was the perfect length and everything... Perfect color.

Dr. Seuss

Shorth is better than length.

Samuel Goldwyn

What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.

Mike Nichols

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

Murray Rothbard

Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.

Nate Silver

You get steely nerves playing poker.

Kate Middleton

I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.

Joe Louis

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

Joe Louis

I don't like money very much, but it calms my nerves.

Chris Bosh

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.

Charlotte Bronte

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

Kelsea Ballerini

I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.

Doug Wilson

I know it's a very volatile and painful experience. I'm sorry the people sitting in this room are the ones affected.

Steve Carell

I had no idea it would be as painful as it was, ... It really stung.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

Nhat Hanh

The therapist does not treat patients by simply giving them another set of beliefs. He or she tries to help them see which kinds of ideas and beliefs have led to their suffering. Many patients want to get rid of their painful feelings, but they do not want to get rid of their beliefs, the viewpoints that are the very roots of their feelings.

Lee Strobel

The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.

Leslie Bennetts

It's tremendously painful for her to dredge all of this up. It makes her feel very vulnerable and very exposed.

Gideon Meir

They are paying a really painful price. It's a painful process.

Xabi Alonso

It was so disappointing for us and a painful defeat,

Nicholas Burns

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

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.

Wolfgang Schauble

In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced.

Kevin Fry

I'm putting too much pressure on myself. I haven't been in my right mind.

Rich McBride

I'm just trying to take pressure off them. I don't want to be out there just to be out there.

William Shirley

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.

Alain Badiou

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Nicholas Burns

There is not going to be a rupture in U.S.-Mexican relations.

Pat Williams

We know that we're not only overdue, but way overdue for a rupture of the southernmost part of the San Andreas Fault.

Matthew McGrory

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

Linda Martin

Lacy tends to be calming. She is not part of the therapy, but she's therapeutic.

Mary Roach

All of my books tend to be about things going on in labs that you wouldn't really expect.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Jeffrey Hirsch

There tends to be a lot of housecleaning from institutions in September,

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Jason Bateman

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

Patrick Marber

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

Mark Hendrickson

That's always been my tendency the first inning of spring.

Pope Francis

Be missionaries of God's tenderness!