Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Danielle Pletka

Katrina has changed many things but I don't think it will change Iraq policy. There is almost no elasticity in that policy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Jeff Banks

It almost got away from us. But we didn't give up just because we were behind. That's the best part.

Alex Rodriguez

It almost feels like we're in their shoes.

Mark Sweeney

He can throw a good one. He almost took my head off today. I didn't know where it was going. But in a game? He'd get killed. It's one thing to play catch. It's another thing to pitch.

Bill Belichick

He kind of knows the right thing to do without being told. He just knows how to get open and he has a good understanding of passing game concepts. He knows where the other receivers are. He understands where he needs to be, and when there are traffic problems, he almost always does the right thing to clear that traffic up.

Ernie Els

He just goes out and goes about his business. So I think Phil, almost more than Tiger, has got more Masters in him, maybe.

Ross Stitt

He just didn't handle the track at Hobart but I knew after he worked on Monday morning he was at his peak for this race. In fact, I almost broke my rules and backed him.

Paul Blake

It could have gotten dragged out. But there were other issues. It got to the point where there were too many things going on.

John Niven

I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.

Hector Perez

All Latin American markets were dragged down by the 'Samba effect', and the Caracas market was no exception.

Francis Lun

The HSI was dragged down by the weak performance of some heavyweights, such as HSBC.

Virgil

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

O. J. Simpson

Then (she was) dragged into a boy's restroom by a 15-year-old male student and allegedly was sexually assaulted,

Dan Savage

They're used to it, ... It isn't the first time I've written about my family history or dragged everyone into a book.

Deanna Lassegard

People either walked up to us or someone dragged them. If you didn't come to us we never knew about you.

Todd Lodwick

I've trained really hard all year, and to be dragged down by one person really hurts. I've worked hard. I just have not had the opportunity to have four really strong guys all at the same time. It's not on my shoulders. I can only do what I can do, and hopefully that is jumping far and skiing fast.

Chipper Jones

He's been pretty much lights out since he got over here.

Gary Payton

I didn't like him as light as he was. He should have been a little bulkier. That's when he's Shaq Diesel.

Frank Wood

He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time.

Richard Posner

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

William Jennings Bryan

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Woody Allen

What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

Woody Allen

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

William Wordsworth

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Art Hogan

I think that turned (the market) around, ... There is no inflationary pressure and that was one of the major concerns.

Pete Boone

I think that, when it all boiled down, production of the offense was a major factor.

Shizuka Arakawa

I was a little nervous today, but there was not any major mistake tonight. It was ok.

Chris Hanson

He's a very major figure, and he's also a very controversial one of course.

Susan Kevorkian

There is always uncertainty around Apple's announcements. If it is big news we want to be prepared. And if it's not we still want to be there because they are such a major player in the MP3 and music-playing markets.

Andrew Stanton

He was one of the major players (at Pixar), and we have yet to process what that will mean over time.

Hugh Johnson

I don' think we are ready for a major move,

Michael Hofmann

Rocks and gravel will come down sometimes. But this is the first time there's ever been a mud event.

Joseph Brodsky

I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.

Confucius

He who sling mud, lose ground.

Teri Garr

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

Kimora Lee Simmons

Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.

Plautus

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Mike Lawrence

Marsh is more pleasant to look at than kind of a mud bank.

Hugh Prather

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

Gertrude Stein

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Donna Norris

I would tell him the 'Bad Man' took her and did this to her. The name just kind of stuck.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Alice Cooper

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

Richelle Mead

My name's Jet Steele.

Richelle Mead

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

Umberto Eco

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

Rick Riordan

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

Russell Lynes

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

Venus Williams

I don't have time to be negative.

Saul Alinsky

If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.

William Faulkner

Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

Andrea Williams

It's incrementally positive. ... It's not a negative but does it open up a new opportunity? I'm not sure it does that.

Mitchell Hurwitz

It's much easier to say negative things in a review.

R. Buckminster Fuller

What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

Dan Anderson

I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, something worse was happening,

R. Ingram

I watched the news and read the newspaper with my dad,

Richard Dawkins

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Russell Baker

Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

Rian Johnson

When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for the pleasure button and I click it. But then, when I see the movie, it's like, "Oh, I would have enjoyed the movie that much more, if I hadn't known that."

Art Hogan

This is more of a technically-driven rally. If the news is positive for the rest of the week, we should trend higher, but not enough to set any new record highs.

Orrin Hatch

If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder

Eric Ries

Better to have bad news that's true than good news we made up

Anthony Crescenzi

Again, another whipsaw day, ... What big news did we get today? ... Nothing.

Chin Han

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

Megan Fox

I want to be as pretty as Robert Pattinson.

Sarah Pinborough

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Debbie Harry

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

John Lydon

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Bram Cohen

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Felipe Alou

What a script. Wow. It was like it was written to be that way.