Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

Max Cobb

Historically, there was a difference in the percent back between the men and women, so we were trying to equalize that. That was the concept. ... But today, it doesn't look the same. Rachel built her case and we supported that, but the Olympic committee didn't feel like they could make a change.

Rickey Bustle

You've got to give the credit for this to our (assistant) coaches. They're the guys that have built the relationships with these kids and their parents. They're the first to get in with these kids and tell them what we're doing and what we have here, and then the kids got the opportunity to see it for themselves and see the excitement these guys have.

Grady Booch

This is a continuation of IBM's and Rational's commitment to the open source community, ... We have built an ecosystem around RUP and we want to expand that.

Levi Levine

We still had to show our respect to Vermont because they came out and played hard and they're a respectful team. They're a team that's built their history, too, so you've got to respect those guys.

George Rodriguez

There's the thought that even if the Fed comes in with a half-percentage-point hike, the market is already trading with that built in.

Michael D. Higgins

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.

Jerry Bernstein

After two months of trial, what do we have? A prosecution built around the most discredited, unreliable witnesses.

David Wood

It's not a good trend, and it certainly troubles us. But we've anticipated it and have built it into our budget.

Terence McElroy

I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the matter is many people have lost their property and homes and someone has to pay for that. Under the law, someone is liable for it.

If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't you think a good costume would be to dress up like the boss's wife? Trust me, it's not.

Vicki Taylor

They're dropping out because they're retiring or because people are moving out of county because of the high cost of living.

Gary Ruskin

There's an opportunity cost of using these machines. I'd rather we use them to spot a tumor and save a life than earn an extra fraction of a percentage from stock trades.

Michael Roach

It's a combination of reacting to lower volume of work and providing the work at a lower cost location and therefore at a lower price.

Dusty Auxier

We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us.

Tony Ridder

We promised a strong bottom-line performance this year, and we are going to deliver, ... We have offset some tightening in the revenue environment with tough cost discipline, and that will not be a one-time event.

Colin Clarke

We definitely deserved to get something from the game. We played well enough, even with 10 men, to get something from the game. But our own errors cost us two goals in the first half,

Chuck Berry

This will cost people their jobs and likely their health insurance.

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Harper Lee

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Jeremy Piven

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Hugh Jackman

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

Yiddish Proverb

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

Marcelo Balboa

He was like a second father to me,

Richelle Mead

A man can never compete with a woman's father

Mike Stanton

It's always nice to be wanted, even at this late date. When I found about this it actually made me laugh.

Ryan Smyth

It's like their gold medal game and they found a way to uplift their game. It was not a walkover.

Dale Buvid

It's frustrating because we didn't get it done offensively. They found a way to win.

Sparky Lyle

When George found out about it, it was church.

John Green

Maybe this time she wanted to be found, and to be found by me.

Kirk Douglas

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

Kim Harrison

Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.

Mark Indelicato

My friends actually found a fansite of mine, and they all registered to be in it.

Lauren Oliver

Happiness is found when no one is looking

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;

Robert E. Howard

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

Walt Kelly

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

Walt Whitman

When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

Walt Whitman

Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.