Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.

Tom Stoppard

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

Dennis Smith

saw some people in distress across the river near the Mexican bank, and that was reported up through Border Patrol channels and relayed to Mexican officials.

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.

Dennis Andrulis

Public hospitals may become an endangered species. Not only are public hospitals disappearing from inner cities across the country, they are disappearing from the suburbs as well.

Larry Freed

Quite frankly, we did not expect to see such consistent drops almost across the board for all the biggest online retailers. These are the guys that are supposed to be doing it right.

Richard Hayne

Quite frankly, the Urban brand organization became too siloed, with too little communication across functional areas. The great creativity that has been the hallmark of our success became stifled.

John Chambers

Q1 was a solid quarter for Cisco, with balanced execution across most of our geographies, market segments and product categories,

Yoshihiro Gake

The slide in stocks is a positive for bonds. Further stocks declines will damp individuals' sentiment and could affect growth.

Mel Feit

There's such a spectrum of choice that women have - it's her body, her pregnancy and she has the ultimate right to make decisions. I'm trying to find a way for a man also to have some say over decisions that affect his life profoundly.

Norman Ornstein

There's no question that it will hurt him and it will hurt him significantly. He's still getting the solid support from his base. The question now is whether his performance with the hurricane begins to affect his performance with his base.

Lindsay Whorton

There's no single factor on the road that would affect execution.

William Peterson

There's no doubt that the planet's warming, but who knows how it's going to affect the coastal systems, ... It certainly was an odd year. If we could figure out what might have caused it, then maybe we could predict it in the future.

Ben Taylor

There's no use in worrying about it. It's not going to affect anything that we do on the field.

Atharva Veda

THE tongue is the armour of heart; it guards one's life. Loud talk, long talks, wild talk, and talk full of anger and hate; all these affect the health of man. Why is silence said to be golden? The silent man has no enemies, though he may not have friends. He has the leisure and the chance to delve within himself and examine his own faults and failings. He has no more inclination to seek them (fault) in others.

Hideki Moronuki

The transfer of the shares in the whaling firm will not affect our policies at all.

Jeremiah Trotter

The train's going to keep moving, but any time you take away a talent like that, it's going to affect you some.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Chuck Palahniuk

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Christopher Paolini

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

Angelina Jolie

Family is what grounds you.

Angelina Jolie

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Amos Oz

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Anne Tyler

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Mickey Irving

We felt pretty good leaving there, and we kept hanging around, and we really frustrated them, which is good.

Chris Iannarone

We felt pretty good going into the half. We said that if we were down only 10 at the half we felt like we would have a shot.

Terry Posey

We've played well to this point, but you can't let up now. The guys remember the hurt last year and what if felt like to lose in this game. That should be some motivation for them.

Alge Crumpler

We were only down by three and I really felt like we could get it done. The other team over there, they played some good football today. I am going to give those guys some credit.

Scott Eyre

What happened to guys this season reminds you it's a business. Those guys were friends, and they said some things they felt had to be said. But you have a job to do, and you have to move on.

Johan Santana

What can you do? I felt like I threw some good pitches and didn't get the calls.

J. M. Roberts

We talked this morning and he said it felt good. That's also when he told me he would be back for next season.

Jerry Bell

We sort of felt this was a Waterloo issue in this committee.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Ken Hitchcock

Even as hard as we play, we're doing things to ourselves that end up being very frustrating. We make mistakes, and at the end of the day it winds up zapping our energy.

Marilyn Tam

First, tell the truth. It's simple and sometimes hard to do.

Mike Piazza

focus, discipline, relying on training, trying not to take things personally, playing hard every day and hustle.

Martin Parr

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

Alex Figert

We lined up in the shape of a 'J' on the 50-yard-line to pray for him. He wasn't with us, but he was there and the kids played hard for him.

Lynn Swann

We do not want to lose the Penguins. Mario Lemieux has worked hard to keep the team in Pittsburgh, and we want to try do what it necessary to make sure that happens.

Ciara

Being a mom, I can't imagine my child not having a meal. That's hard to digest.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Anita Baker

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

Angie Stone

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

Ani Difranco

The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.

Andy Griffith

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

Amy Jo Martin

I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

Ally Carter

I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet."- Hale

Ally Carter

Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me down to lean against him. I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight. I was safe. I was warm. I was home.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

Eric Lyons

I just knew Loogootee was going to win the tournament. They're loaded with seniors and they have everyone back from last year's sectional championship team.

Thomas Coleman

I just knew I was going to get it (the block).

Lana Savage

I just knew i had to get him off the streets.

Brandi Knight

I put two and two together and knew it was him.

Vince Carter

I put it up, (Smith) was trying to go for the block. I knew that if I didn't make the shot, I had to try and get in position (for the rebound). It's win by any means. Sometimes it's not going to be pretty.

Merv Griffin

I picked her because she knew the whole alphabet. She is America's sweetheart.

Oliver Ross

His locker actually was right next to mine last year. I knew he had it in him. It was just a matter of him getting a shot.

Sean Rushton

I'm not sure that we really knew anything new about Michael Luttig from this case,

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.