Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daphne Gottlieb

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

Kresley Cole

If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.

Louis Navellier

There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion.

Michael Hayden

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

Kim Johnson

Young people need direction in their lives and I believe the Alpha course can help them.

Emma Holly

Alpha heroes, even uberalpha heroes, still win readers' hearts. I like a masterful hero myself, but I also enjoy the idea that sometimes the heroine can be in charge.

Tina Brown

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.

Adora Svitak

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

Steve Kline

We anticipate the Alpha TIF district can be established on or before June 30, 2006, depending on the availability of data and the completion of any required annexations.

Eddie Jordan

How will he react? Will he be focused to lead this team the right way to as many victories as we can get? Will he sulk for three weeks? My belief is that he'll be a focused assassin -- a focused basketball player to get the job done and lead this team to a good playoff position.

Jay Wright

I'm scared to death. I know the assassin mentality he has. He's always on attack. He's always probing the defense. I liked it better when we didn't know what was there.

Jose Mujica

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.

Rick Carlisle

It's like inviting an assassin to a gathering of living presidents. You know he can score a zillion points. I have the utmost respect for Kobe Bryant. He competes at the highest of the highest echelon.

Gilbert Arenas

I told everybody at the All-Star break: Eastern Conference, I'm coming for you. I'm the Eastern Conference assassin right now; it's a tour from city to city.

Terry Pratchett

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

Terry Pratchett

Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.

Paul Schintzius

A quiet assassin who let his game do the talking. He wanted the ball in his hands when the game was on the line. A truly gifted athlete with incredible foot speed and lightning quick hands and he developed into an outstanding three-point shooter.

James Rosen

Do you believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin of President Kennedy ?

Brian Clifford

I think it's more of a media event than a market event. It's not really changing what we do every day. We do think we'll get there?we believe equity markets are poised to go higher and the economic backdrop is still intact. It might take a couple of days.

Stieg Larsson

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

Susan Sherer

We are extremely grateful to our sponsors and partners that make Motown Winter Blast possible. We have created an incredible backdrop for Super Bowl XL and we're excited to share it with the world.

Jonathan Witz

In creating this event, we researched some really cold winter events, taking into consideration fun for the family and celebrating what's great about winter in Michigan. Last year was a huge success and we promise an even more spectacular event in 2006 -- the perfect backdrop for Super Bowl XL.

Chris Gibson

The exchange has clearly demonstrated its robust strength as an independent business, delivering strong results despite the backdrop of an offer period and the significant resources this has entailed,

John Carlson

The market got way oversold, so a lot of those things reversed themselves. And a strong U.S. dollar and strong U.S. economy have provided a backdrop for global growth.

Tom Lee

They've just done so much in the community through the years, quietly behind the scenes, to help the quality of life of the people in the town. It's nice to see the local family pharmacy thriving behind the backdrop of these national companies. We're here to pay tribute to 50 years in business. That doesn't come without a lot of talent and perseverance.

Paul Niven

Oil stocks are still not discounting as strong a backdrop for the oil price as we anticipate, so we still think there is some value in terms of the oil price.

Cheech Marin

It's good, but it's more of a backdrop to another little story I want to tell, and I'm going to direct that. Jeffrey Hatcher who did 'Stage Beauty' is doing the script. It's kind of like a backstage drama.

Casey Nicholaw

I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had it. I can't do this anymore.' I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: 'I want to do something else. I need a little more.'

Alfonso Soriano

I was working in the cage today with my mechanics, so I had very good pitches and timing with the ball. I feel great tonight.

Barry Bonds

I have been playing catch and in the next few weeks I hope to be in the cage doing some hitting. There is a good possibility I could be back in September with the team but if not I will definitely be in the 2006 line-up.

Vladimir Nabokov

We are most artistically caged.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

Chris Mooney

Part of our offense is that there are no set plays to get any certain person open. It's more about the flow, and the better players are going to end up with the most shots. Cage did a really good job on him and made it difficult to score all night.

Tyler, The Creator

I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He's one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.

Atharva Veda

Do not cage God in a picture frame,Do not confine him in an idol,He is all forms; He is all Names.

Randy Winn

I wanted to play today and get some at-bats and see pitches without the cage around me before going to the WBC. It was good to see and recognize some pitches.

Mel Netzhammer

I think it's a natural evolution for Keene State College. The staff wants the emphasis to be on academics.

Michael Hara

I think we can outgrow the industry because of factors like Vista, which puts an emphasis on graphics.

Tullian Tchividjian

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.

James Hansen

I put a little more emphasis (than the other commissioners did) on the lack of savings when it seemed obvious that we had way too much infrastructure,

Darcy Regier

The emphasis is just trying to get him signed as soon as possible. Everything after that is just a day or two away.

Lucia Micarelli

Conservatory training is so much. There's so much emphasis on playing perfectly in tune and being perfect and doing everything as it's written.

Ezra Taft Benson

Food production is just one part of the repeated emphasis that you store a provision of food which will last for at least a year wherever it is legally permissible to do so.

David Eckstein

It's the emphasis on one run (in the NL),

Jeff Francoeur

You don't want to look at one game and put too much emphasis on it,

Lenny Harris

Keep pushing. Keep fighting. We'll get it done. We have to get it done.

Carolyn Scott

I thought up here this would never happen. Fights happen everywhere, but I thought never a murder here.

Tom Coughlin

He gets in these situations and he fights his way out of it. He comes over to the sidelines and he's the one who has the most poise.

Nicolas Kiefer

I'm happy with the way I'm fighting. There's still a long way, but the most important thing is to win.

Carolyn Wright

I never relaxed because I know they're the kind of team that's going to keep fighting.

Miguel Cotto

All boxers are different, and we all approach the fights in different ways.

Proverb Proverbs

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Bill Gates

There've been a lot of fights where the other guy really knocked himself out.

Stan Gundy

It's not about numbers. Then you'd have guys fighting. It's about playing the game better. It's being more efficient, it's making better decisions, it's playing the other end of the floor better and it's lifting your team to heights they haven't been to.

Tracy Bodi

He's been hot all year. We were able to manufacture some runs.

Romeo Santos

My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.

Rick Riordan

We were absolutely destined to meet your hot sister

Rick Riordan

The future for Commander Tool Belt was not looking so hot.

Bobby Bowden

I'm pretty hot right now, because that was a pretty frustrating offensive performance,

Todd Olson

I'm sure the hotels in town are pretty full, with all that's going on.

John Oates

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

Remar Harvin

This is a high-volume season for a lot of these hotels and we just couldn't find anyplace else for these people to go.

Connie Hagler

(The hot tubs) are warming up right now and by the time of the jump, they should be steaming and lovely.

Kellan Lutz

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

Keke Palmer

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

Grady Sizemore

I always feel like that. That's what I love about the game. There's always pressure in baseball.

Maria Sharapova

I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.

Stephen Jackson

He wants to play with us. He loves his teammates. He has no problem with his teammates. He told me that personally. He wants to come back and play.

Rod Carew

He cared. I love him. I'm going to miss him.

Peggy Fleming

He just loves what he's doing. And that rubs off on his skaters.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Daniel Logan

I love being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.'

John Tortorella

It better not be hard. We have to maintain it.

Suki Waterhouse

Acting is something I'm interested in, and I'll keep going to auditions, but modelling is my main job.

Daniel Bruhl

Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.

Saku Koivu

He's a strong man, tough to maintain down low.

Sergio Garcia

I think it's been a solid season, but I wouldn't say it's been extraordinary mainly because I haven't putted well,

David Moody

We talked about what they already know ? that they spend a lot of time watching TV and that what they see is spread into mainstream ideals.

William McDonough

we (the Fed) will do what we have to do to maintain price stability.

Barry Hyman

I think we're going to go down to the wire whether or not it's a half-percentage point (increase). If you want to maintain market stability, a quarter percentage point could keep the market at bay.

David Pringle

It is not enough to preserve open space. We need to maintain it.

Ben Roethlisberger

It is a growing-up process. I'm a long way from mastering anything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

Jules Verne

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Dave Parker

He is 50-50 right now for the Masters but we should know more after the operation.

Sarah Lewis

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,

Sara Teasdale

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Wilhelm Reich

We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

Jack Molenaar

If you look at spaces per person, there are more spaces per person allotted right now than were allotted in the master plan.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Richard P. Feynman

Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics.

Robert Plant

Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.

Rohit Shetty

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

Wietse Venema

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

Warren Farrell

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

Lee Watkins

They'd been there for six generations and it was all gone.

Kim Harrison

Good God,” I whispered, sitting on the van’s cot and looking at my legs, horrified. They were hairy—not wolf hairy, but an I-couldn’t-find-my-razor-the-last-six-months hairy. Utterly grossed out, I took a peek at my armpit, jerking away. Oh, that’s just…nasty.

Lindsay Pearce

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

Brian Waldron

We can co-exist with soccer, absolutely. They're essentially a summer sport and we're winter. We'll make it work beautifully.

Rob Sheffield

God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.

Richard Paul Evans

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

Tyler Perry

Developing a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

Truman Capote

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

Rick Riordan

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.

William Law

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

William Wordsworth

The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

Will Ferrell

I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn't seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore.

Brad Miller

The intersections will be constructed at their ultimate width.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

Jason Baker

This one was the ultimate whiteout - a wall of snow.

Henry Ford

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

Karl Marx

No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

Milton Friedman

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

John Howard

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

Jim Rohn

Profits are better than wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

Ed Pastor

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Thomas Carlyle

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Tim Powers

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

Mitch Mitchell

It is a big one. We have to win it to be in the playoffs.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Gerhard Schroeder

There is no alternative to this struggle, which we must win and will win,

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Trent Strickland

We've got to play with a hunger. We've got to want a win and we've got to get a win.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Lindsay Davenport

I want to win this again, and as long as I can keep going I have a chance.

Richard Petty

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.