Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Hills

We start by asking a series of questions to try to get some clues going for us. The first is usually: Do you know which garage you're in? Not everybody does.

Nick Woodman

I got an email from the Crown Prince of Norway asking me to talk at a summit for young Norwegian entrepreneurs. I ran to my wife and was like, 'Hey! I got an email from the Prince of Norway!'

Helen Sharman

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.

Dean Ryerson

We have seen an increase in pregnant students coming into the university clinic. Our clinic also hands out free condoms, and we have seen an increase of students asking for them.

Jimmy Neal

We have to go through the city manager, so we will send him a letter (today) asking for a meeting.

Imad Moustapha

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States,

Imad Moustapha

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance, on issues they wanted our assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States. This has included our support for the elections in Iraq, our securing the borders. We have done everything possible to secure the borders between Syria and Iraq.

Carol Williams

When you saw Dwayne in his front yard, you saw Shawn. Dwayne always came by asking for Shawn, until Shawn went missing. They used to just hang in the yard, laughing and joking.

Jason Klein

We want shorter contracts, because the times change. And we haven't had a pay raise since 1997. That's what this whole strike is about is unfair labor practices. We're asking for a livable wage.

Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

Charles Caleb Colton

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

Charles Caleb Colton

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

Charles Caleb Colton

That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

Peter Power

We are at a loss to understand why Norway has chosen to go down this particular route.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.

Tod Nielsen

Therefore, Borland has chosen to focus wholly on its ALM business.

John Greenwood

We're frustrated. I think they've chosen to play hardball and it's unfortunate.

John Greenwood

We're frustrated, ... I think they've chosen to play hardball and it's unfortunate.

Philip Clapp

At a time when these controversial issues need a leader who can find common ground, the president could not have chosen a more divisive nominee.

Jim Hayes

It's easier than ever. But you have to have a niche and fill it. We've chosen to be the local chronicle, the local voice.

Chip Williams

They have a wide receiver that has some good size. They have chosen to go to him about 50 percent of the time,

James Upham

What the other countries are doing, you just copy it. The system's easy. I steal all my training ideas from the Norwegians, OK? I steal all my shooting ideas from the Germans. It's not like it's that hard. It's very simple to do.

Charlie Green

A copy is $1 and to certify it is $1.50,

Pat Schroeder

Think of the precedent of that -- for movies, for software, for anything in the intellectual property realm. Everybody has the right to copy everything unless the rights holder finds you and says, 'No.' It puts the onus on the rights owner.

Michelle Lombardo

This is a dream come true. I would always pick up my brother's copy of the swimsuit issue. I always thought that if I ever got into modeling, I would love to make it into Sports Illustrated.

Greg Thompson

They spend tens of thousands of dollars on copying and overnight couriers. We don't have to print anything. Sites are starting to see the savings and the efficiencies.

Robert Stephens

They're worried about people copying it. It is easier than before, not only to copy a CD, share it with a few friends, but share it with millions of people you don't even know. So that's what they're worried about.

Walter Wada

It's okay to copy someone, to be influenced by a great master, so long as you say it.

Steve Kemp

It's the decade that you can help create, you know what I mean? There's no point in looking back. We don't want to make a record that's already been made. We don't want to copy anyone.

Brad Ausmus

There were a number of times I said to myself, this is unbelievable, an instant classic, ... I'll get a copy on tape.

Leslie Cockburn

It's a very enclosed world on Wall Street.

Ann Cleeves

I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about.

Shaun Woodward

I say to smokers, smoke if you wish to - but not at work, and not in enclosed public spaces,

Peter Capaldi

In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London.

Graham Secker

The telecoms news was disappointing. We do not have any hopes for that sector in the near term, but when the market starts to slow down later in the year maybe they will be an interesting trade.

Amrit Bohara

The state is responsible for a resumption of violence because it rejected the Maoist truce that had raised some hopes for peace.

Ethiopian Proverb

What one hopes for is always better than what one has

Kirk Hinrich

The time is now. We have to do it now, or in a week or two we could be out of it and not playing for anything. If we have any hopes of being in the playoffs, we have to turn it around.

Melissa Wilson

My hopes right now are to be able to walk again, because you realize how important walking really is to you.

Richard Hills

My hopes for Newcastle are the same as they were before Bath,

Samuel E. Morison

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Mark Davies

Shane has resumed light training and hopes to progress this with a view to being included for the Ospreys match.

Uma Bharti

She hopes that she will get support from the BJP. I am supporting her because I don't think that I am separated from BJP.

Mike Holmgren

Where I am impressed even more with him this year is his pass protection,

Tom Dolde

They told him that he was their No. 1 player to recruit so that impressed him.

Michael Parker

At Freeport I had met a number of people who had done MBAs in the US and had been very impressed by their knowledge and understanding of business.

Robin S. Sharma

Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles.

Andrew Neff

A year ago, I didn't know what to make of him. But I've been impressed with what I've seen.

Bob Feasel

That part I don?t worry about as much with this group. I was totally impressed with what we did tonight ? especially in the first half.

Heather Davis

People who haven't seen ceramics ... will be impressed with the size of some of the pieces. Some are huge.

Jack Cosgrove

Once we get them here, I think a lot of the young people are very impressed with what they see.

Gordon Banks

Anything is possible. I've been very, very impressed with him.

Barnett Newman

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Audrey Tautou

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Deb Caletti

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Lorraine Toussaint

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

John Milton

The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none.

Joe Vinson

The point is, people are getting the most antioxidants from beverages, as opposed to what you might think,

Mike Stackpole

We still thought we might be able to do it.

Kurt Vonnegut

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Bill Nighy

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

Al Pacino

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

Chloe Sevigny

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

Antony Sher

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

Charles de Lint

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Jeff Neary

They're not very trusting of outsiders -- at first he really didn't want us there.

Darren Shan

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Carroll Quigley

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

Diane Abbott

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

Atul Gawande

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

John Payne

We've never had so many petitions where there's been problems.

Donn Rubin

We'll print the petitions as soon as we can. It's time to get on and get signatures.

Marcia Wieder

The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.

Jeff Hennion

We are being presented with different possibilities all day, every day.

Kevin Krueger

Whatever he wants to do with his life...we just want all the possibilities to be there for him.

Gary Russell

The range of possibilities is still pretty vast,

Luka Sulic

Don't wait for someone to call you up. You can do anything. You have all the possibilities in the world.

Steve Letro

We have to wait and see what (Ophelia) is going to do. The possibilities are endless.

Jim Haslett

I haven't talked to Mr. Benson about any of that at all. I haven't talked about those possibilities yet. I would like to know something before the end of the season. But that's up to him.

Paul Simon

Time, time, time, See what's become of me, While I look around all my possibilities

Roger Turner

This route is shorter than any of the possibilities that could be used for I-3.

Allard Baird

Right now, we'll send him out as a third baseman.

Bud Allen

Put that (amendment) in there and send it back to them,

Bruce McCulloch

It would send a very strong signal to us that, basically, you're not interested." ()

Greek proverb

I send thee myrrh, not that thou mayest be by it perfumed, but it perfumed by thee

Dusty Baker

It wouldn't send me a message. It's his career. It's not my career.

John Updike

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

Tom Robbins

I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.

Joe Gibbs

Yes, I will send that in. I feel like that one was obvious.

Kevin Reilly

We wanted to send the show off with dignity.