Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a ""crowned head,"" although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester:""If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester.""""The reason, Sire, that you would thrive,"" The fool said --""if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit."" --Oogum Bem

Paula Mitchell

Knowing that my mother's alive and how she fought her way out, that's helped me a lot, ... We've heard so much bad news all week, we needed some good news.

Bill Clinton

John had a dream of black people as successful and smart and beautiful and heroic, a vision of keeping hope alive by showing black people as faces of hope. He never gave up. He never gave in. He once said 'At the end of the day, we're all just trying to give people hope.' I liked John Johnson. I thought he was a strong and wise, straight forward and kind man.

Mike Hanson

He is very lucky to be alive. We were told he was lucky to be alive and his face had severe trauma.

M. Wolfe

GW is out, so it's anybody's. That's what we want. We're trying to stay alive and get an NCAA bid.

Mike Williamson

He's keeping us alive for stretches of games when we're not playing our best.

Dan Daniel

There is more of a diverse group in The Gulch than anywhere else in Nashville. It's an interesting, alive community and ICON is the first of many changes down there.

Michael Barnett

I can leave but I won't leave. My city is drowning and burning at the same time. We are the only Internet connection still alive in the city and we're going to stay here because our customers are counting on us.

William Sheridan

I am alive because someone was kind enough to give me their heart.

Bob Mancini

Kitchener may be the class of our conference. Erie always has a good team. They do a good job of reloading. We'll be playing in two very tough buildings this weekend.

Daniel Kurtzer

I would suggest that we need to focus on killing terrorists instead of building democracies.

Matt Duffy

I talked to a of people and they said your freshman year is a building year.

Bruce Wisan

He wants to come back and start building and I am thrilled with that.

Drew Houston

There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.

Jerrold Post

He recounted to me that when he first saw the pictures of the bombed-out shells of the building he was really horrified.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.

Dorothy Johnson

It is going to bump us up another level, ... It is remarkable that we have ranked as high as we have with the buildings we have.

Jeff Murray

Lab buildings are fun because scientists are so passionate. Researchers are very concerned and knowledgeable about their space and have a lot of ideas of how it should work, because they realize it can make a big difference in how productive they are.

Bill Cowher

I talked to Matt and I talked to Chris Doering, and I told them to stay in the bullpen for one more year, ... You never know.

Josh Cribb

Having a big game like I did tonight and having a game where I'm able to keep my pitch count down through nine innings is going to help out the bullpen the rest of the weekend.

Laura Barrett

Handing a laptop to kids isn't necessarily going to be a magic bullet for improving student learning.

Ken Macha

Halsey, that was a great effort by him. And the bullpen came through again.

Chris Rock

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

Phil Garner

Having Marquis in the bullpen is probably going to help a little bit. Even though some probably are going to say their bullpen is a little suspect right now, I don't look at it that way.

Rich Bowen

He's 6 feet 1 and weighs 235 and he's like a bull running inside. He's fast, too. We run a spread offense and try to give him some lanes to run in. He's got the speed to pull away from guys.

Rich Bowen

He's 6 feet 1 and weighs 235 and he's like a bull running inside, ... He's fast, too. We run a spread offense and try to give him some lanes to run in. He's got the speed to pull away from guys.

Brian Dawkins

He's a guy that has every move you need as a running back. He can stop you in your tracks. He can stop and go on a dime. He can spin on you. He can catch the ball. He can run over you. He can bull you for 3 yards and get into the end zone. Then he has the jets to get past you. He has everything you need to be a great back, and that's why he is one.

Steve Brown

Having a place to live is great. I get to have my dog. I feel like a productive citizen again. It's a new lease on life.

Bob Baldwin

He's a great corporate citizen and does tremendous work in our community,

Mayor Cartmell

He's just the kind of model citizen we like to have ... He's just the nicest kid that you would ever want to know.

Eric Hoffman

He should be forever locked up to ensure the safety and security of the citizens of Delaware County.

E. Helm

I think the citizens of this city are nervous about overdevelopment, ... We want development, yes, but we don't want it all in downtown in one area.

Craig Johnson

What makes us fundamentally different is that we give citizens the tools to become informed, organize themselves and then to take action, ... People can form or join groups, contribute money or time, or dialog with their representatives with just two clicks of their mouse.

Freman Hendrix

It has been a labor of love for me. I have not tired. I am energized when I am around the citizens of Detroit.

Rick Scott

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

Scott Turow

Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.

Andy Xie

Growth rates could decelerate by another 1 percentage point due to further rises in oil prices.

Stephen Bernstein

Holding him without due process is improper, and either ICE or the prosecutors should explain why.

Richard Shim

I think it's a smart move, one that was probably due a long time ago, but they were just so stubborn.

Patty Clausen

I think it's due to the economy. People are hanging onto their money, because they don't know what's going to happen.

Rick Meckler

I think that the idea of never-ending, short-term-rate increases no longer seems as likely to people. But I would not be surprised if the Fed still increases, but signals to the market that they are prepared to stop increasing if the economy slows due to the hurricane.

Takehiro Sato

We look for a rebound due to the recycling of oil money, such as in high-ticket orders from oil-producing nations.

Danny Smith

Robinson is due for a major revival. We have to provide a reliable source for people.

David Sloane

I had extensive telephone conversations today with representatives of the Mets, Orioles and Rangers and a face-to-face meeting with the Marlins due to the proximity.

Wayne Shepperd

I hope that I can offer a good idea. I'm told that I get a good idea every 10 years, so I'm due for one soon.

Mark Rodgers

It appears, at the end of the day, there are fossil fuel interests trying to stop a renewable energy project.

Lee Humphrey

He was big for us tonight. He's been around for five years; he knows how to prepare for games. He knows the right mindset to have, and he stays focused. Tonight he gave us great energy off the bench.

Siobhan Davies

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

Scott Fetzer

Having them out there kind of sets the pace for the rest of the team. Their energy kind of spreads out, and other kids feed off it.

James Neal

He said he was feeling good but was having a hard time getting his energy back.

Ross Gittell

Historically, spikes in energy prices are followed by a recession. The possibility (of a recession) is there; the probability is less than 50 percent, but it's there.

Willie Randolph

His stuff is good. Hey, we're 9-2 and he's a part of our team and as long as we're doing well I don't feel I should waste a lot of energy talking about him.

Chelsea Levine

There is energy and it's exciting performing on stage with other people.

Brian Griese

I think we have a good mix. We have some guys that have played a lot of football that are on our team now, but I'm really excited about the young guys that we have. Just the energy and the youth, there's a lot to be said for that.

Sarah Shahi

I'm used to a lot of love scenes. I'm used to something that requires me to kick up my heels and wink-wink, flirt-flirt with a twirl of my skirt.

Liam Payne

On a scale of one to ten, I'm probably a six when it comes to flirting. I'm quite shy.

Lil Wayne

When i started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex, now I'm engaged to the game and married to success.

Lauren Graham

Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

Julie Garwood

Flirting is the first step in a long process of finding the right man or woman.

John Gay

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

James Patterson

She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists.

Betty Smith

I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?

Susan Powter

The world's not changing. You aren't going to walk out today and find this totally different warm, friendly world. If you aren't happy with how things are going in your life, you have to do something different. You have to do something different to make an impact on the world. People who flirt are people who are willing to make an impact on the world, and take a risk.

Chris DiMarco

I would take 10-under and go home and see how it does.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

Melinda Hyder

He wanted his cigarettes, his son - he told us he made enough money and didn't need it. He made us all promise we were going to vote for him. (She did.) I really think that he had planned on going home all day, but he was part of a four-person alliance, and they talked him into staying.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Harry Smith

He did not know it was coming. He's distraught. He had a whole plan to go home and resume a life with his family.

John McDonnell

He didn't go home for spring break. We told him he had to get in shape and get his weight down. He's looking much better.

Neal Hersh

Kim is respectful of what the judge did and she's pleased with today. We're hopeful this will be the end of it.

Craig Biggio

Just seeing it in spring training was something that was pretty special. We wanted the winning one, and hopefully we can turn that around and maybe get one.

Dana Quigley

I taught her everything she knows, ... She played with me last year, and look what's happened. I hope I have the same impact on Tim as I did Paula.

Felipe Alou

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Cokie Roberts

He's always hoped I would have one. I never have.

Dan Svirbly

His year didn't end the way we hoped it would. He got down here for the second time and won a match again, he just couldn't quite get to the podium.

Chris Coghlan

There is a kind of sense of urgency. We do need to win two of three and hopefully even sweep.

Mike Ackerman

I thought the team started out strong for their first game. I hope it will keep going from here.

Ken Zimmerman

Keeping the matches just may be therapeutic for everyone.

Joe Schmidt

keeping pressure on the ball, controlling the opponent's set plays and team defense.

Jack Dean

Just to be within one shot of Beaufort, I'm ecstatic. When were not keeping up with Beaufort is when I'm not happy.

Stephnie Weir

There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.

Drew Stanton

Having that (run-and-pass) threat is really nice in keeping people off-balance.

Larry Smith

It didn't make sense keeping the property industrial. It would have been underutilized that way.

Don Dunn

I was disappointed in him because he has a lot of potential. He was not playing up to his potential. He was lazy. He wasn't keeping up with his academics.

Margaret Spellings

We're on the way to keeping that promise.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Jeremy Roenick

I think it indicates the state of our game, the lack of respect especially in preseason,

Jim Bowden

He was able to pitch with the tear. His lack of performance had to do with the tear.

Jud Gartman

We are going to run the ball. We can't throw it a lot because of our lack of speed. We have to do what we can do best.

Stephanie Cravens

Lack of understanding about roles/responsibilities results in violation of statutes on board's part.

Rod Schwarz

It's real disappointing. I think it shows a lack of preparation and a lack of concentration. We just weren't ready to play.

Gerhard Schroeder

It's cold, it lacks solidarity and it's inhuman,

Ovid

Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.

Kevin Logan

It's a very thin market. People don't want to take any risk because of the lack of liquidity.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Rep. Lawlor

There is going to be a public hearing, and there is going to be a vote, and, more likely than not, he is going to be confirmed.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Sen. Nass

It is likely to not be successful when we come back in January. This is a promise that may not be kept.

Herb Kohl

Well, you're likely to be confirmed, as we all know.

Robert Hill

He'll more than likely have to go to counseling, get parenting classes.

Himanshu Patel

The market is likely to be reassured that management is now putting firmer parameters around 2006 performance.

Jim Dyke

The more we get the message out, the more likely we think people will become excited.

James Johnston

The more they need you, the more likely it is you're going to get clauses that you want in the agreement.

Lisa Maxwell

It's just an untouched jewel. It really is just kind of the next place for likely development patterns to occur.

Edmund White

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Chris Beatty

He'll be making a lot more money than that senator.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Stanley Tucci

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

William Devane

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Jena Malone

If you took Lydia out of 'Pride and Prejudice' and put her into today, she'd be one of the popular girls,

Richard Lewis

You can't really find somebody that has been so prolific, so 'on the scene,' so popular and cutting-edge as Carlin, ... He is the Rolling Stones of stand-up.

Rep. Baxley

I want to tell you something about accountability: It's hard. It hurts. If you're going to do the right thing, it's not always going to be the popular thing.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Trevor Rabin

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

Chris Reid

It's like reaching back in time. This vase survived the years and made its way home.

Najib Razak

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

Rick Wagoner

These negotiations were done in a positive, cooperative, problem-solving spirit, ... While it may have taken some time to reach this cooperative solution, I think it was time well-spent.

Nizar Hamdoon

The only way to try to reach out ... is if the American administration sits down and talks with the Iraqis.

Brad Smith

We don't understand how they can reach these conclusions, because they haven't read or reviewed these documents.

Christopher Hill

We are trying to work with it, ... We are trying to reach something with it. How this turns out we don't know yet.

Oscar Hammerstein II

I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm.

Henri Rousseau

The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

Jennifer Wilson

In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one.

Oskar Schindler

I thank my personal staff for their restless sacrifice for my work.

Jason Varitek

It's big. Having him back in the rotation is big for this team.

John Green

The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

Alan Ackerman

As we end the quarter, there is some rotation into small stocks,

Robert Armknecht

We are seeing a rotation back into some of the real companies, if you will.

Scot Shields

The starters are what make our team better. Our starting rotation is a lot better than what it was in 2002 -and you've got a right fielder who makes us a little better, too.

Mary Wittenberg

We just want a shot in the rotation of an athlete's career.

Mike Carey

I think Ann Strother took over the game, which a senior should.

Cara Bortz

I was just thinking, this is the end of my senior year.

William Kristol

Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors (who might well 'believe they are entitled to heath care,' a position Romney agrees with), as well as many lower-income Americans (including men and women serving in the military) who think conservative policies are better for the country even if they're not getting a tax cut under the Romney plan. So Romney seems to have contempt not just for the Democrats who oppose him, but for tens of millions who intend to vote for him.

Sara Zarr

Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a senior in high school and he was my only real boyfriend." "I know." "And I won't find another one at Jones Hall. That is guaranteed." "Okay." "This is all very sad and tragic," I said. Alan unwrapped a sleeve of Smarties. "Yet, oddly, you don't seem that upset." "I know.

Richard Foreman

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

Roald Dahl

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

Robert Morse

I love to go into the studio on days when I'm not even doing anything. It's like my senior club. Some people go to senior centers, well I go to my senior center.

Michael Robinson

I never would have thought my Senior Day was going to come,

Taquan Dean

I have nothing to say. As a senior leader, it's tough.

Saul Berman

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.

Ken Wilber

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

John Krasinski

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

Matthew Rhys

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Walter Kirn

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

Sgt. Reynolds

His statement was that it was a very small amount.

Darryl Frank

There is a strong (talent) pool, but a very small pool.

Ian Fleming

To come and see them live at a small track has appeal.

Kevin Jones

He doesn't play as small as he is.

Sander Levin

What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

Vincent Van Gogh

I'll start with small things.

Tory Burch

Never underestimate the impact of a small act.

William Butler Yeats

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

Helen Mirren

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Richard Power

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

Richard P. Feynman

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Richard Dawkins

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

Richelle Mead

Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

Ronnie Dunn

In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.

Tyler Cowen

apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...

Richard Foreman

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

Richard Powers

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Samuel Wilson

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.