Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a ""crowned head,"" although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester:""If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester.""""The reason, Sire, that you would thrive,"" The fool said --""if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit."" --Oogum Bem

Paula Mitchell

Knowing that my mother's alive and how she fought her way out, that's helped me a lot, ... We've heard so much bad news all week, we needed some good news.

Bill Clinton

John had a dream of black people as successful and smart and beautiful and heroic, a vision of keeping hope alive by showing black people as faces of hope. He never gave up. He never gave in. He once said 'At the end of the day, we're all just trying to give people hope.' I liked John Johnson. I thought he was a strong and wise, straight forward and kind man.

Mike Hanson

He is very lucky to be alive. We were told he was lucky to be alive and his face had severe trauma.

M. Wolfe

GW is out, so it's anybody's. That's what we want. We're trying to stay alive and get an NCAA bid.

Mike Williamson

He's keeping us alive for stretches of games when we're not playing our best.

Dan Daniel

There is more of a diverse group in The Gulch than anywhere else in Nashville. It's an interesting, alive community and ICON is the first of many changes down there.

Kenneth Feld

We transport people to a place that is more magical than they could ever imagine. We capture the essence of Disney through these heartwarming stories that encompass virtually every generation alive today, giving this show truly universal appeal.

Winn Schwartau

What I have not been able to dig up in the past is how does the human element work in this? Who are the people who keep it alive . . . and how do they relate to each other?

Ratu Gavidi

It captures a unique sense of wisdom and leadership and draws an inspiration that lifts the spirit.

Richard Danzig

It captures a sense of what extraordinary history this has through the old ships, the tall ships. At the same time it emphasizes the extraordinary present-day relevance of naval power. Seventy percent of the globe is water, and we're able to operate from the sea everywhere. The Navy really is everywhere for America.

Rudy Siegel

He was able to capture a point in life and an emotion with a few strokes.

Henry Wallace

Happily, it can be said that as yet fascism has not captured a predominant place in the outlook of any American section, class or religion.

Jason Olim

Historically, we have captured all of our international sales by default.

Scott Silliman

I think the court is going to have to take it. This is a vital case on the principle of an American citizen captured in the United States and what constitutional rights does he have.

Prince Ranariddh

There is a great difference between surrender and capture, ... Surrender means we have to give Pol Pot safe conduct. We have to capture him alive.

Curtis Hanson

With millions of people watching poker weekly on television, it was important to capture the authenticity of the game and its players. To that end, the poker tables in 'Lucky You' are primarily populated by poker players, not actors pretending to be poker players. Our stars trained for months in order to convincingly play side by side with top poker professionals cast in fictional roles.

David Marks

Together the funds offer exposure to the full Morningstar-style box. Equity investors in these funds will have the opportunity to capture coverage of most of the total market without substantial risk of overlap. It will make it easier for investors and advisors to use these funds effectively and to know instantly from the name what each piece of the portfolio does.

Anika Noni Rose

I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.

Don Bowes

He skated with Disney on Ice for years.

Christopher Byrne

I think the Princess line has been the single strongest initiative Disney has done in years. (The campaign) is a really strong strategic move.

Gary Loftus

It is just part of the evolving market. We are just doing it a little less subtly than Disney does it, and it is happening all at once. It's just what happens. It's called evolution. Every 20 years or 30 years, it churns.

Walt Disney

Disneyland is a work of love.

Walt Disney

It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.

Walt Disney

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

Allen Lichtenstein

I look at it as part of the same kind of mind-set that looks at the tourist industry as paramount, and therefore anything that might offend tourists, the powers that be don't want. So they pass these things sometimes forgetting the fact we're not in a private Disneyland here.

John Lasseter

I promise you we will make films that entertain you the moment the lights go down. We're making Disney the one place you have to work (as an animator).

Ben Kennedy

The fans encompass you a lot more. All around, it's fans. So that will be really cool.

Doug Barber

What's neat about this Rivers & Spires festival, there are many festivals under one umbrella. We're trying to encompass our total community.

John Updike

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

Mike Kennedy

We're able to focus on master-planned communities, in part because they really encompass all the disciplines we have.

P. J. O'Rourke

Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

Sri Chinmoy

In the mind, we doubt and suspect, and we get a kind of pleasure, a kind of joy from that. But in the heart, we try to encompass the full world, and by loving the world, we get joy.

William Feather

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Russell Baker

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

Rebecca Miller

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

Sandra Bernhard

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

Samuel Johnson

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

Will Smith

Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool.

Walter Bagehot

The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.

Vasily Grossman

The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of necessity. Freedom is necessity overcome. Progress is, in essence, the progress of human freedom. Yes, and after all, life itself is freedom. The evolution of life is the evolution of freedom.

Van Morrison

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

William S. Burroughs

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

Ronald Reagan

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

Zinedine Zidane

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.

Darren Star

In the moment when you're doing a show, you're thinking of that moment, but you don't think of, 'Here's down the line how people will be relating to the characters.' There's something very universal about 'Sex and the City' that people are still tapping into, where every generation seems to be discovering for itself.

Ronald Smith

But you don't see a lot of violence around here like they say. I think the station might be a sign of intimidation. The younger generation may see it as a sign of intimidation.

Nuno Bettencourt

I know many people who grew up in the '70s, and my generation stopped listening to anything after 1979 because they're not into it.

Patrick Robinson

I'm interested in what the next generation is about.

Eriks Janelsins

In green building, that's a long time ago. Probably a generation ago.

Bob Williams

I'm 60 years old, and I'm ready to let the next generation spread their wings.

Jesper Parnevik

I would say it's like Pinehurst but maybe that's giving it too much credit.

David Jones

Greenspan is giving the markets a reality check. Good for him.

Tony Wingen

He's a force. We were willing to give up some inside points as long as we were not giving up 3-pointers. We did all that we needed to do to win.

Jeanine Pirro

Today is about thanking them for what they're doing in advance, giving them the support they need to go through the school year.

Travis Cabral

To everyone at Sierra-at-Tahoe, thank you for helping me live my dream. Thank you, Lake Tahoe, for your support. And, most of all, thank you, God, for giving me the talent and opportunity to represent Lake Tahoe and the U.S.A.

S. Hughes

What you're doing is giving the government an interest-free loan.

Terri Schumacher

I thought we did a much better job in the second half, the last 10 minutes of not giving them more second-chance points.

H. Hunt

I thought that was the big difference. We did a lot of things right defensively, but giving up second shots hurt us.

Hilka Klinkenberg

I think we've been guilt tripped enough into giving people tips unnecessarily, and it's time to stop tipping people who give you abominable service.

Tony Pullen

I told them going into the seventh inning we want to make it a magical season so let's make it a magical first game.

Bob Snyder

It was a wonderful, magical night of music,

Nnedi Okorafor

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Agnus Berenato

We've had a magical season. I don't think we're ready for it to end.

Ozzie Guillen

Every day, it's somebody different. I've never seen a team as magical as this one.

Paul Alexander

We went there in the middle of the night, the 'blue hour' between midnight and 3am. Talk about haunted! It's a magical place to work.

M. Wolfe

For whatever reason, $199 tends to be a magical price point.

Howard Davidowitz

The advertisers are gone. It's a question of getting them back. But getting every one of them back is priced into the stock. The stock is priced as if everything she does is magical and perfect.

Ron Taffel

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Gregg Popovich

It always has been that people didn't think we were for real,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Virginia Woolf

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Vincente Minnelli

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

Vincente Minnelli

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

Vladimir Putin

This is a region [ Far East] with a substantially developed transport and railroad infrastructure. In recent years we have been actively developing road connection.

Colleen Barrett

We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.

Jerry Bruckheimer

We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.

David Williams

They are truly the ones that do all the real work.

Harriet Ziefert

It's nothing huge, nothing truly terrible. They're more like little aggravations,

Jillian Messenger

I truly have a lot of all-stars on this team, I really do.

Al Thornton

I truly feel like we have done enough to get in the tournament.

Todd Miller

This is truly a localized show down to the jokes.

Julie Foudy

It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.

Jan Peter Balkenende

Freedom is a universal value.

Stephen Sondheim

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

Maz Jobrani

You know, funny can be universal.

Carl Rogers

what is most personal is most universal

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is universal.