Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruth Rendell

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

Lorraine Shinn

All of a sudden, all of these cashier's checks start appearing and money orders. To me, money orders equal cash.

William Young

I see no basis for an attorney appearing on television for any reason in this case, ... This case is not going to be tried in the press.

Peta Todd

I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate.

Amadeu Tardio

We expect that the difficulties that are appearing now can be resolved in the coming hours before the deadline.

Freddie Stroma

I left Facebook after Facebook groups began appearing about me and suddenly your personal photographs start becoming public property.

Lanny Davis

Voluntarily appearing in front of a congressional committee in public does not violate separation of powers.

Kevin Mitnick

People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures.

Scott Stossel

Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.

Tim Reese

He was able to find that median where he was an authority figure but cool enough that he would hang out with his students.

Jim Hall

Kyle was swinging the bat with authority all day. He had a good cut early in the game, but struck out. Actually, he looked good up there during all three of his trips to the plate. He got a fastball he could handle, low and in, and he didn't miss it.

Abdallah Baali

What matters in our eyes is that he's the president's choice and that he's close to the president. That gives him certainly the authority to deal with us in New York.

Lee Halper

The people should have the authority to change the laws.

Kofi Annan

We submit to you our request for your involvement and your good office in the present circumstances to call upon the US authority and the present government of Iraq to review the legal status of the present court and to reallocate the present court outside Iraq, i.e. The Hague, Netherlands,

Lionel Jospin

Today I am a candidate in the presidential election, ... in the spirit of responsibility, the foundation of authority.

Sol Campbell

It is now being dealt with by the authorities.

Rudolf Gouws

I have heard of local authorities without a single engineer.

David Currier

I have heard it being talked about, ... My understanding is its to make things run more efficiently, to give me the authority to do my job.

Lloyd Carr

I think it is certainly one of the better defensive teams in the country.

Stephen Black

It certainly doesn't get any harder, ... I think Townsville in Townsville is probably the big game.

Curt Fredrickson

It certainly didn't feel like a 10-point win, I can say that.

Donna Newman

It certainly did not comport with due process.

David Mann

It certainly did help to see some narrowing of the trade deficit -- but the real positive for sterling will be a 'steady as she goes' message from the Fed and then the next step will be to see what the inflation report tomorrow has to offer.

Paul Gianelli

It certainly comes as a shock to my client to be charged with a crime.

Pat Rice

It certainly can't hurt. And it will give some of the dated hotel properties downtown a reason to upgrade in order to compete.

Gene Clines

He wants it so bad, he's going to make a statement. But when he does make a mistake and he does certain things, you have to take a step back and remember this kid was at Double-A. He's going to make mistakes.

Paul Silas

He can still play. He can certainly help somebody.

Kevin Keegan

I will be here as long as it takes. I might have to convince a few cynics, but I've never fallen out of love with football.

Ron Gardenhire

He was restarting his life out there. He was thinking about getting married again. We were trying to convince him to come back and put the uniform on again, and we were getting close.

Richard Byyny

I don't feel it's necessary to convince people of anything. I'll just tell people the truth.

Dan Rather

I am convinced we can do so again. That must be our focus and priority.

Tang Jiaxuan

I am convinced that this meeting will succeed,

Louis Michel

I am convinced that the electoral process is irreversible and that there will be elections before June 30, 2006.

P. Herbert

I am fully convinced that he will elevate the program to what you expect.

William Shatner

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

Bob Horn

In the end, the evidence that was presented really convinced the jury to the standard that we were set to.

Hoop Scheffer

He did not mention it. It's more use for us to send engineers with road-clearing and snow-moving equipment - because it will be winter soon - than that sort of operation, which, to my knowledge, Pakistan has not requested.

John Lomax

Right now, our nation is in somewhat of a crisis. We don't have now and are not producing now enough engineers to keep the United States competitive in a global market.

Nancy Lewis

If there are engineers out there looking for jobs, we have the resources.

James Grant

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

Henry Petroski

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Robert Lamm

A lot of producers will intimidate you or leave it to the engineer when you're in the vocal booth. I'm at my most vulnerable when I'm singing, but he just had a great manner in the studio.

Arthur Ganson

I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.

Bruce Dickinson

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

Joanna Lumley

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Herbert Sloane

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me out of the plane. My instinctive fear was the gasoline.

Mike Ramsey

What we fear, in a situation as radioactive as this one, is that we'll have a so-called stealth juror.

Graeme Smith

We are fearful it is possibly going to be sold for scrap, which would be a travesty.

Spanish Proverb

He who is feared gets more than his own.

Richard Baxter

Dangers bring fears and fears more dangers bring.

William S. Burroughs

I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

William Manchester

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

Woodrow Wilson

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

Jim Duncan

Knowing that figure is a valuable tool that will help guide the Planning Commission's thinking as they work to update the Comprehensive Plan.

Jason Eldredge

Keep giving it to us, we've got to figure it out. When the whistle blows, let's play it.

Brian Nichols

Just shut up. Just shut up. I gotta figure a way out here.

Julie Brown

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

Mike Mills

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

Eric McArthur

We just have to figure out who goes where in our bullpen. We got guys who just couldn't find the plate and we need them to go out there and throw strikes.

Alex Lewis

We took a game-by-game focus. If we took it like that, we figured we'd have as much success as we've had so far.

Thomas Berkery

We're old enough to know we got to get the job done. It's just a matter of making adjustments and getting on a run. We got to figure out what people are trying to do to us pitching-wise and how quickly we can adjust.

Richard Gephardt

We've got to look back on what happened and try to figure out how to do better,

Jodie King

I am disappointed in how we played. I really think it's a mental block. We were so keyed up, we had a letdown.

Robert Smithson

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Mark McKechnie

The 'warring tribes' mentality isn't working for them.

Ray LaCroix

It just didn't come together for us this year for a variety of reasons. I don't think it had anything to do with ability, I think it was a lot of mental things more than anything else. It's the same things that have plagued us all year.

Linda Hamilton

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

Gloria Arroyo

All of us are mentally and physically exhausted,

Nioka Campbell

It's OK to talk about mental illness. No one should be embarrassed about it.

Al Roberts

They didn't do anything we hadn't seen. We are philosophically sound, but we're not physically ready. We're not mentally ready. We're not spiritually ready. We're not athletically ready.

Shameka Christon

It wasn't too hard, but I feel it now at this point in our season. Playing back-to-back seasons and going so hard, but mentally I try to push it back.

Don Miller

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

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.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Thora Birch

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

Simon Spurr

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Matthew Devost

There are a lot of smart people out there. And they will always find a way in if there is something they want.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Laurie Colwin

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Paul Krugman

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

Malcolm Gladwell

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

Jim Leach

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Justin Smiley

I think he's taking it pretty well, but I know it's tough.

Bob Hunter

I thought I was going to be a reporter, taking notes,

Seth Numrich

If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.'

Peyton Gulley

We don't know where everything is because of the construction, so we're taking tours too.