Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Boies

I think, your honor, you could say -- and this is not that different from what we have argued -- that as long as the manual recounts will not impair the final certification in time to permit the selection of electors by December 12, that those manual recounts must be included.

John Faulkner

Labor has consistently argued that the inclusion of such penalties for whistle blowers, public servants and journalists in this Bill was an attack on freedom of speech.

Julia Cameron

I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak.

John Leguizamo

He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, ... I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare you?' And he stormed out of the theater and I followed him and we fought and argued and hugged and he cried and we made up.

Leslie Charteris

In fact, it could logically be argued that the man best qualified to review a detective story is an established detective-story writer.

George Packer

I never found the questions easy to answer, and the manner in which the country argued with itself seemed wholly inadequate to the scale of what we were about to get into. I first went to Iraq, and then kept going back, because I wanted to see past the abstractions to what the war meant in people's lives.

Warren Moon

I know I had a guy who argued my case extremely well. But I also had to relegate myself to having to wait. I had to wait to get to a major college, and I had to wait to get to the NFL.

Joshua Cohen

In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.

Jason Mark

The industry has argued for years that consumers don't care about fuel economy. I think they are finding themselves quite surprised by the level of public concern.

Michael Anderson

It's interesting sculpturally. It has horns like a bull, a beak like a bird and nostrils like a rhinoceros. It's just wacky.

Chris Grinde

It was a nice win. As I told the kids it's not the biggest game of the year. It's too early to consider any game a make or beak game right now.

Caroll Spinney

Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.

Taylor Dent

After the first set he started making a lot of first serves and I didn't play solid enough from the back to have a chance to beak him. On top of that he was playing very well and hitting great passing shots and I wasn't able to overcome that.

Rick Riordan

Come on," I said. "I've got some questions for Thoth. And then I'm going to punch him in the beak.

How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak

Jay Lynch

It also seems far-fetched. People with osteoporosis have brittle bones and are prone to bone injuries. ... By its very nature, osteoporosis places one in the position of potential harm occurring. To say that a facility is negligent because osteoporosis creates falls that result in broken bones is illogical. Denying care for a resident's broken bones is harmful.

Mark Parrish

Guys have as much confidence in Garth as they do in Rick. (Garth) keeps those old bones limber on the bench, so he's ready.

Mike Babcock

He's cut around the eye. I guess the bones are fine. They sent him for a CAT scan or whatever, but it sounds like he's just fine and everything's precautionary, so that's real positive.

Matt Applebaum

Our play wasn't acceptable. We were a big part of the reason Bones was getting hit.

Russell Page

I like the gardens with good bones and affirmed underlying structure.. well-marked paths, well-built walls, well-defined changes in level.

Brent Sutter

I'm not making any bones about it: we have two or three guys who make a lot of money on this team, ... You know who they are and it's time they stepped up and took the team to another level.

Kylie Bax

I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it

Lynn Seaba

These are bones you never see on a horse, (they) were just jutting out and when you put your hand there there's no fat there at all. She was literally a walking skeleton.

Bob Dylan

The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face.

Brent Newman

Jake was trailing most of that race. He finished super strong and just out-touched the other two.

Teri Hatcher

I actually thought 'Desperate Housewives' finished very well. I just think there's still stories to be told. I feel like I get that from fans that they weren't done watching those people's lives.

Nancy Karl

He was about 95 percent finished when he died,

Casey Schweitzer

He didn't place and finished 3-2. He was a little disgusted, frustrated with his performance. He thought he could place.

Paul Nicholls

He's just got in there. He finished third up at Perth at the end of a long season on his last start and he might just need this.

Will Brown

I thought Hartford finished strong in the regular season. I thought Larry did a good job.

Willie Roaf

I thought about (retiring). I talked to Will and some of the guys. Then last year we finished so strong at the end of the year. It was great seeing Will come back. That helped, too.

Casey Mears

I thought about going with Newman, but Elliott Sadler (who finished fourth) gave me such a good shove, I had to stay with him.

Megan Busch

I think we did a great job (down the stretch). Brittany finished it out for us.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Into the jaws of death,/ Into the mouth of hell/ Rode the six hundred.

John Grogan

It looked like the Jaws of Life had pulled it open.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Joe Girardi

I was with him 10 of my first 11 years (as a manager or coach) and it was great, ... I'd want him around if I would be there.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Jill Paton Walsh

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.

Harold Vogel

In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story,

Santigold

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

Nicole Richie

I was like a trash can - I took everything.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Ashley Thomas

We took the practice, so much I shouldn't be worried.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Maggie Mueller

We took them lightly. And we shouldn't have.

Mark Roberts

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

Vince Young

I went through all my progressions, so I just took off with it.

David Stewart

It's going to be tougher in the rain,

Rocky Hager

It's even tougher when you watch the tape. We had our chances. We made some plays.

Bob Henriquez

I truly have never, ever had a tougher kid. His toughness is, for me, legendary.

Sergei Udaltsov

The harder they resist us, the tougher will be our response.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Brent Norberg

We did a lot defensively. We made them take some tougher shots.

Daniel Gibson

We want an up-tempo game. When we go out and we're the aggressor, we're tougher to handle.

Gary Shourds

We just made more big plays, and we were tougher defensively.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I don't know if there's a tougher place to play.

Mike Aronson

He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.

Richelle Mead

We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts.

Rick Riordan

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

Woody Hayes

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

Woody Allen

Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

Robinson Jeffers

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Samuel Johnson

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

William Hazlitt

Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.

W. Somerset Maugham

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

William Wordsworth

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Sargent Shriver

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Willa Cather

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

Salvador Dali

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

Samuel Johnson

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

Marcel Proust

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

Narendra Modi

Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.