Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Henry Yennie

Of the almost 1,500, we suspect there's a 'nugget' who are truly missing ? washed out into the Gulf. Then there's a small subset that honestly don't want to be found. How do we know when we're done? How long do you keep looking? What do you do when you've done all the DNA testing you can, when you've called everyone and you still can't find the person?

Janine Jansen

After the concert, people said it was almost too intimate to watch us play.

Dan Kammen

Oil futures are based on people's fears. It's almost exactly similar to the stock market. We buy oil on the futures market. So if you look out in the future, you have to say, is it likely that Iran will have a conflict?

Amy Evans

Once we got to the sectional last year, it was almost like a sigh of relief. I felt like anything after that was going to be icing on the cake. This year, you set the ball higher and say, 'Maybe that is not enough.

Mark Tveskov

Once the gold rush came, white settlement of the Rogue Valley was a quick bloom, and conflict with the Indian population was almost instantaneous.

Morgan Pressel

Actually in the majors, I feel almost more comfortable, because the courses are set up that much more tougher, where it puts a premium on accuracy, which I think is one of the strongest parts of my game.

Martin Jacques

The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the main reason why the Rugby World Cup, the Pacific islands excepted, was so desperately white, the Springboks included.

Al Goldman

The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost like a chain reaction -- it builds on itself.

Jean Parker

As a mother you never expect to bury your child, not in the sense that I had to go through.

Stephen Hadley

We went from a summit that was supposed to bury FTAA, to a summit in which all 34 countries actually talked in terms of an FTAA. Recognizing there are challenges, that is some real progress.

Susan Olsen

What we try to do is keep our happy history stuff separate from our regular business. People who are doing genealogy are all excited about researching Miles Davis; you don't want them to be in a situation where they're working next to someone burying a loved one.

Jenny Potter

Unfortunately, we didn't bury it when we needed to.

Sylvia Plath

I wondered what I thought I was burying.

Ted Benna

My fear is a lot of people are burying their heads in the sand, and they don't even open their statements. Clearly, it's been a sobering time.

Robert Fick

He loves Detroit. He played with Detroit. He loves the English 'D.' He's not the kind to yell at you. And he's not going to bury you in a hole. He's going to teach you how, get you to work out of it.

Brad Ausmus

You've got to deal with it. You can't sit around and bury your face in your hands. We were just two runs down with seven innings to go.

Dr. Grossman

There were victims, and people couldn't bury their loved ones,

Juan Avila

Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Cheech Marin

It was about taking the show and shining a different light on it. Each monologue was like a separate jewel that I helped thread into a necklace.

Pat Riley

I should have played him in New Jersey. I regret that. He could have helped on (Vince) Carter.

Karen Brown

I should have helped in some way. I should have put my life on the line.

Peter Diepenbrock

They all helped out on (Gordon). From top to bottom, this was truly a team effort.

Tricia Gaither

This is the first time we've had him for a whole year, and his program is one of the best. I think the sport specific things he does have helped me a lot and our team a lot.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

J. M. Roberts

That's like saying you shouldn't nominate Roberts because he helped with Roemer v. Evans,

Marek Hlasko

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

Gbola Amusa

The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Aaron Woods

Once we lost our steam supply, we were unable to recover and prevent the event that occurred on Wednesday, March 1.

Andrew Engel

I've never lost to Severna Park. Everyone says that they are the better team, but we've got to go out there and prove it every time we play.

Kevin Grace

The store manager of the Tacoma Levitz told me 45,000 people lost their money at Levitz.

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Gerard Hopkins

I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

Christopher Davis

It wouldn't be catastrophic if they lost it.

Charles Singley

Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.

Brett Favre

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Jamie Farr

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

Asa Gray

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Brian Wilson

I earned my famous name.

Brie Larson

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.

Aphra Behn

Dear me no Dears, Sir ...

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Brad Pitt

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

Anita Hill

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

Tim Blake Nelson

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

Chris Paul

I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.

J. C. Watts

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

Bill Self

I thought it was two teams playing really hard. I thought Oklahoma State played really tough and it rebounded well and pressured us out of what we wanted to do. We kind of did the same to them for awhile.

Ronnie Dunn

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

Woody Guthrie

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Michael Moore

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

Janie Allen

Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.

Sam Martin

He was a very popular young man. The students are taking it hard.

Bob Beatty

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

Mike Smith

Some of the more popular schools could be filled.

Vance Havner

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

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Shigeki Maruyama

The LPGA is very popular in Japan, ... She will be a big star.

Argus Hamilton

No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

Augustus

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

Ayn Rand

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

Benito Mussolini

We must give Italians a sense of race.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

Calvin Coolidge

There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.

Janet Guthrie

Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

Dan Aykroyd

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

Connor Franta

Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.

Carol Burnett

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

Janis Joplin

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games...

Bill Hicks

I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

Duane Chapman

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

Angie Harmon

And, Bruce and I are pretty close as well. We're both from Texas and we both understand each other. When I'm having trouble with a scene, I'll just go over to him and be like, "I have no idea what's happening here. What are we doing?" He's just been such a wonderful sounding board and, obviously, he's a tremendously talented actor.

Rick Riordan

That's what happens when it snows in Texas lady. It. Freaking. Melts.

Ross Perot

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

Roger Clemens

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

Tommy Lee Jones

Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.

Bruce Dern

Track and field has always interested me.

John Norris

Everything is on track and going very well.

Claude Chabrol

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

Albert Einstein

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

Suze Orman

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

Tim Lincecum

I'm focused on myself and on what I've got to do...I'm just trying to get back on track and keep this positive mindset.

Vince Clarke

I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

Usain Bolt

The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

Steven Pinker

If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.