Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giles Foden

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

Oliver Thomas

The patchwork the corps did on the Ninth Ward was nowhere near the level they did on 17th Street. It wasn't the same quality work.

Rick Perlstein

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.

Phil Klay

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

Gary Moody

We are not very big. Our linebacking corps has good size. We are not very big on the defensive line and we are not very big in the secondary, but we do have some quickness and we do have some good hitters. We play a fast style of defense. So far, our hitting and our tackling has been really good.

Elie Wiesel

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

Studs Terkel

If it weren't for the warm grates we would've had 80 frozen corpses down there during the big blizzard.

Larry Fitzgerald

He's a great person to be around, ... He's a great influence on not only me, but the whole receiving corps and this whole football team. He's going to help us out in the locker room and he's definitely going to help us out on the field.

Turner Gill

He's kind of had some flashes. He'll have a great day and then he'll have some days that are not so good. But it was great to see him come back today in a game-type environment and make some plays for us. We've got to have guys in the receiving corps to step up and make plays for us.

Igor Luksic

It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.

Will Yun Lee

Whenever you're fighting with weapons, there's a level of reality because people don't understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points - that if the timing's wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There's nothing like working with an actor who doesn't know what they're doing, because you're always in fear of losing an eye.

Will Champlin

I'm definitely a fighter, like Christina Aguilera would say.

Billy Graham

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Emma Roberts

New York is a fun place to shoot, but it's definitely hectic.

Ben Affleck

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

Helane Becker

The pilots definitely have the power in this relationship. If they don't want to fly, you don't fly.

Patrick Callahan

The pendulum is definitely returning and has been for a year.

Mike Connors

The penalty is definitely one that fits the crime.

David Swacker

The people around here are very hard-working. Many of them work at plants. And that is representative of what we have on the football field.

Carl Pohlad

Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach of Notre Dame. Lou has left his distinctive mark of success everywhere he has coached. Winning Every Day is not just a catchy phrase, but with Coach Holtz, a way of life.

Arsene Wenger

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear.

Arsene Wenger

In England, football is important for everybody.

Arsene Wenger

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

Arsene Wenger

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

Arsene Wenger

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

Arsene Wenger

You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

Arsene Wenger

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Wesley Clark

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Bill Vaughan

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

Lukata Mjumbe

The applicants will still be responsible for their bills. The program will only help them up until March.

E. O. Wilson

The association earns money by helping to sell them and working at the store on the day of the event.

Brendan Fletcher

'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.

David Steinberg

In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.

Roger McGuinn

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

Gregg Andrews

We're really starting to see the strongest influences of the '80s in spring 2006.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

Pearl Cleage

If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.

Vicky Rideout

I think parents' media use is probably an important influence on kids' media use.

Billy Sherwood

I was so influenced by Yes then that things started to sound very much like Yes.

E. P. Thompson

I would be naive to think that it's not going to be heavily influenced by a lot of things he's taught me.

Jeff Adrien

That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. It's a big game, national TV.

Tracey Tipton

Like I told them in the locker room, in my mind they are the No. 1 team in the country.

Ruth Gordon

. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

Kevin Rogers

Nobody in (our) locker room condones that. Nobody does.

Russell Robinson

I don't think we're underdogs. I don't think any of the people in the locker room think we're underdogs.

Rick Byrd

I don't go on stage, and he doesn't come into the locker room.

Phillip Fulmer

We're going to miss him in the locker room as a leader. I know Jason. He'll be around and part of what we're trying to do.

Keegan Bradley

I love team environments, like the Celtics, the Bruins. I love going into the locker room and meeting these guys.

Larry Brown

With this win, in that locker room, they needed something positive.

Brittany Snow

My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.'

Audrey Hepburn

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Cass Canfield

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

Jan Egeland

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

Austan Goolsbee

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

Sophia Amoruso

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

Donald Miller

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

Debbie Reynolds

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

Coventry Patmore

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.

Vince Clarke

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.

Carrie Fisher

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Bill Bruford

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Madonna Ciccone

I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.

Pat Nixon

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.

Tony Russa

I think the thing not to misunderstand is that he has not been sitting in the training room or on a bench. He's been taking 100 swings a day.

Richard Riley

little room for testing or for any slippage in their schedules.

Terrence Holt

I still have my same room over there. I can still crash.

Richard Kovalcheck

We don't have room to not be focused,