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.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Charles Powell

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

Margaret Spellings

a victory for children and parents all across the country.

Dennis Lillee

Australia was ambushed by England because way too many people right across the board were living in a comfort zone. The first priority is to appoint a captain who can lead from the front.

John Anton

Automotive demand carried the market through the recession years but must now cope with a modest downturn in late 2005 and across 2006. Thus, special quality bars will continue to see softer demand from this key market in 2006.

Ken Salazar

A year ago, the Energy Department forecast that gasoline would be selling for $1.80 a gallon, not the $3.12 a gallon that it was in Colorado yesterday, ... These continuing high prices will create economic havoc in Colorado's economy and across the country.

John Varley

Barclays delivered strong and broadly based profit growth in 2005. We made good progress in the UK and are well positioned across the group for further growth in 2006.

R. Robinson

The burden of this crisis cannot be borne by workers and retirees alone.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Hooman Majd

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

Rudyard Kipling

Is it true, what you told me jest now, that you never done a hand's turn o' work in all your born life? Must feel kinder awful, don't it?

Tim O'Brien

I showed up in October 1946, part of an early surge that would become a great nationwide baby boom. My sister Kathy was born a year later.

Greg Brunner

I've been born and raised a Hawkeye. I couldn't imagine anything else.

Frank Jackson

This is not just for me, it's for kids not born yet.

Derek Kosub

That's where I was born and raised. That was my team when I was a kid.

Kathy Holleman

You only need one kidney. Doctors say a lot of people are born with one kidney and never know they have only one kidney.

Graham Watson

Coalition forces may actually be fueling the fires of insurgency.

Donald Rumsfeld

the sooner it is done, the fewer Iraqis that will be killed, the fewer Americans or coalition forces that will be killed.

Mark Pervan

This is still a pretty good outcome. The price settlement for lower quality coking coal was better than expected.

Mark Pervan

This is still a pretty good outcome and would lend support to iron ore pricing. The price settlement for lower quality coking coal was better than expected.

Dan Fulscher

We did have coal dust, we did have the product on fire.

Terri Miller

Everything we try to do at this tournament, even in the coal industry, is to honor the men that we lost in the January tragedies.

Dick Gephardt

We have a big job of reconciling the people in Iraq. We need to pull together that international coalition that we should have gotten together a long time ago,

Yulia Tymoshenko

Today, much more than yesterday, there is a threat of a coalition between Our Ukraine and the Regions Party.

Paul Patterson

With higher oil and natural gas prices, nuclear and coal plants have a distinct competitive advantage. Policy-makers should look for ways to enable and encourage development of such capacity.

Michele Hiester

Western Pennsylvania is showing signs of job growth but it isn't growing as quickly as what we're seeing in the eastern half of the state.

Frank Holmes

Money will flow to where there are solid returns on capital. There are great opportunities in Eastern Europe and other emerging markets. We're seeing economic growth twice that of the U.S. but stocks are trading at a discount.

Sami Kapanen

I think they're one of the quickest teams -- especially up front -- in the Eastern Conference. That's how they try and play now, and especially with the new rules, it's been real good for them. If you look at the standings, they're right there at the top.

Tricia Binford

It depends. We've got to get Eastern Washington here, and we've got to steal one on the road next week.

Mark Few

I don't want to take anything away from Eastern Washington. They had a great approach.

Liang Liang

He knows how to handle the subtle inner feelings in a Eastern way while retaining the American way of telling the story.

Tom Reich

When it comes to the economics of baseball, there's no question he's been a hawk and is a hawk. But I don't think that meant that he didn't want to win. His excitement right now is undeniable.

Friedrich List

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Jerry Patterson

The economics work, and they work well, and we're excited about it. The environmental impacts are very positive.

Pamela Falk

The economics of Washington's strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

Joan Robinson

The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.

Laura McDowell

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for years.

Megan Jones

The teams we're working with are used to working at a lot quicker pace than regular workers because they have a time crunch. We took that same outlook for this family and worked twice as hard.

Jenny Lewis

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

Travis Britt

I wanted something my whole family could enjoy, too. The planning didn't work out.

Martin Jaeger

A five-member family has gone missing in Yemen.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.

Mark Jackson

The one thing is that family members handle it the right way. There's some family members who will throw gasoline on the fire. It's important to know that we have to uphold the game.

Karl Hepner

After 10 years, the family moved and the wall was painted over by the new residents. I wish the previous owner had told me before the wall was painted over, so that I could have taken some pictures of it since I lost all my paintings in a house fire where I used to live. I now only have paintings from recent years, which isn't too many.

Danielle Fishel

After 'Boy Meets World' ended, I didn't know if I was going to be lucky enough to work on a show with as many talented people and feel such a family comradery.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Mike Baker

Sometimes it's just as important to tell people to stay home as it is to tell them to leave,

Chelsea Clinton

Running is my prophylactic stress relief for the day. Or the segue so that I can go home and be with my husband in a kind of clearheaded way.

Marcia Wieder

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Rich Muck

Sandbags take up less room in storage than tires. They're also less likely to be a home for rodents and other vermin.

Anthony Chan

Rates might be low, but people are starting to realize that rates will go up. Remember you've got to get a mortgage down the line, maybe six months out when the home is complete. People are preparing for it.

Hillary Clinton

I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.

Darrell Royal

I've lived in Texas 48 years now. Yes . . . I've been vaccinated and dipped.

Michael Shaw

I've lived here all my life, and in some places we were, I couldn't recognize where I was,

Olivia Toca

The most important thing is returning to friendships and family. We moved a lot, and never lived near family. We always had to make new friends.

Henry Jordan

Seems like there was one, but it's been a long, long time ago, ... I'm 69 now and I've lived here since I was 5 and I just don't remember one.

Jeffrey Sachs

Russia increasingly lived on short-term borrowing. Now, this was an extraordinary merry-go-round.

Mike Lookinland

The problem for me was, I lived my childhood in my 20s. You should really try to live your childhood when you're a child, because if you do it when you're 26, it can be dangerous.

Jan Jones

He was young and naive. We lived in a different world in 1993.

Proverb Proverb

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

E. Hurley

We want to marry in February, possibly on Valentine's Day, ... It hasn't been easy. We've wanted to marry for some time.

Victoria Principal

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

Archie Panjabi

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

Barbara Mertz

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Ayelet Waldman

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

Ayelet Waldman

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

Ayelet Waldman

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

Ayelet Waldman

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Ayelet Waldman

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

Lindsay Lewis

I was relieved. We're all like 5-4, 5-5, so they're like mountains to us.

Joe Sakic

Defensively, we have to shore things up, and that's what we're trying to do.

Mario Garcia

Automatically in the state of Arizona, if you're over 80,000 pounds, you get fined,

Don Stewart

Are we in violation of any state statutes?

Steve Kendall

The thought was the state was going to do something.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

Tiffany Fisher

It was very frustrating. (Heritage Christian) was better defensively than any of the teams we've played. They were a lot quicker. They were just better. That's why they're state champions.

Robert Hansen

The state is already telling us what to teach

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mark Johnson

This isn't about us wanting something now. This is about what we want our state to be 50 or 100 years from now. If we wait another 50 to 100 years, it'll be gone.

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Barbara Park

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Audie Murphy

Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy...Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.

Brenda Ueland

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

Jan Karon

Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Bryant H. McGill

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Charles Kettering

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Charles Bukowski

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Dennis Tomasevicz

The town of Shelby has just been unreal.

Dolly Parton

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

Mitch Albom

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

Nikolai Gogol

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

Mason Cooley

I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

Lou Barletta

I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.

John Anderson

I would have thought most towns had some kind of evacuation plan.

Robert Hurt

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

Stephen Ambrose

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

Eve Hewson

Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it.