Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Martha Stewart

My daughter doesn't allow me to wear fur.

Jim Marks

Multi-lender sites allow you to get a good look at the rate market. (Traditionally), it has taken a lot of time and effort to find out what rates are. You'd have to go to two or three different places and possibly even fill out an application each time.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

must not allow itself to be turned into an instrument in denying a nation of its inalienable right.

Hanna Rosin

Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.

John Thune

my hope would be that the president will allow the process to work.

J. H. Wyman

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

Brian Turner

Now, with those games out of the way, we want to keep watching these players when they return to their clubs and make sure they maintain the standards we expect and that they don't allow bad habits to creep in.

Drew Kesse

Negative things roll right off our family; we don't allow negative things. We're realistic; we understand it could go another direction. That just doesn't help anything.

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Pat Davis

We know our customers have asked for this type of a project.

Chipper Jones

Well, not for all of October. If they asked me to play again, I would certainly go to camp for a week or so to prepare for it, but not a month.

Sung Sohn

Two weeks ago traders thought there was no chance. If you had asked me Thursday, I would have said less than a 50 percent chance (of a December hike), at best I would have said a 50-50 chance. Now it looks pretty likely.

John Challenger

Those who fail to deliver will be asked to tender their resignation or risk being forced out in a shareholder revolt.

Jason Johnson

We were investigating RFID standards for the possibility of developing one or more RFID-related patent pools and in the mist of our investigation we were approached by several of the founders of the NFC Forum, who own intellectual property related to NFC. They asked us to develop a patent pool.

Melanie Chisholm

We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay.

Shaun Pollock

To protect a defeat and still go down 1-0 in the series is pointless. We've got to give ourselves a chance to win.

Albert Pujols

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

Bill Delahunt

This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.

Bernard Barton

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bruce Pearl

To do special things you need have special players and special performances. Obviously you saw one tonight from Chris Lofton. We did a pretty good job of getting him open and guys did a pretty good job of turning shots down to get him shots because he (Lofton) clearly had a pretty good chance of making what he put up.

Rick Dudley

Todd is known as a very good guy in the locker room and is well known for working with younger players. He has a chance to become one of the veteran leaders of this team and we're going to give him that opportunity.

Steve Richey

We had a hard time handling their big man inside. They got a lot of second chance baskets and that hurt us in the second half.

LeBron James

We wanted to be mentally focused. We didn't want to give Portland a chance to get back in it. We did a great job of closing it out.

Steve Bruce

We've had two opportunities and to give yourself any chance here you have to take one of them and unfortunately for us we didn't.

Paul Wiedeman

We can't operate with just two guys out there. It takes all five guys on the court knowing their roles.

Donyell Marshall

We don't want to just make the playoffs. We want to go deep into the playoffs. We're still fighting for home court advantage.

Chris Collins

We do have litigation pending in district court and standing here now this morning I don't know what the end result will be.

Clint Eastwood

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit--qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected. It is growth along these lines that will make us whole, and will enable the individual to become world to himself.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

Anne Lamott

I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.

Anne Lamott

I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

Anne Lamott

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

Anne Lamott

...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Judi Dench

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

Josh Brolin

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

Joseph Joubert

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Joseph Joubert

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

Patrick Henry

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Pat Cooper

I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.

Julia Roberts

Some people are antagonized by the truth.