Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Pierce Baker

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

John Owen

We expect to report an operating margin between 2 percent and 4 percent, and that should bring us to a net loss for the full year. And for full-year, we are using an assumed fuel price of $1.92 (for a gallon of jet fuel). So, basically, $1.92 in the first quarter and an average of about $2 for each of the remaining three quarters.

John Taylor

I think we ought to assume that $59.99 is going to be the place we start for game prices,

Mary McAleese

It is important that we do not complacently assume that economic success and social disparity inevitably go hand-in-hand.

Bob Jones

I'd assume he can convert it and pay some of his legal bills, and that is perfectly OK with me.

Michael Hayes

He is a proven leader, and we think he is an excellent choice to assume this important new role at Fred's,

Ron Phipps

Price is always pivotal. If a house is under priced, people sometimes assume that there is something wrong with it.

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Nobbs

I talked to the umpire after the game and he said he thinks its nerves. We can't put our finger on it. Maybe it's just they don't know how to get ready yet. Basically it's coming from long days in school, and coming out and not really knowing what to expect.

E. P. Thompson

It breaks my heart to realize that the culture has basically transformed the church rather than the church confronting the culture and trying to transform it.

Leonard Little

It basically was a teaching session this year. It wasn't a thing where they came out and beat us up every day. We basically learned the position, and learned what we needed to do on every given play.

Larry Taylor

It basically took my life away. I don't really care if I see daylight tomorrow.

Michael Bird

It basically takes the 'block' out of the block grant concept.

Dan Sharp

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

James Sullivan

It basically proves what we suspected for a long time -- that kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

Michael Miller

It basically looks like the worst is over.

Tom Gordon

I was looking to be a closer again. That was the biggest thing.

Marcus Williams

I was always around. I ended up talking to him a lot and got really cool with him. But the biggest thing with me was, I wanted to get away from home and grow and build myself up somewhere else.

Mark Martin

Just to be able to put an exclamation point on Richmond was the biggest goal, but in hindsight, knowing that when you have a chance to win the last regular-season race, it just propels you right into the Chase.

Yasser Arafat

is very important for the international peace all over the world, which means it is very important for the biggest power all over the world -- America.

Aaron Gray

Guys are putting too much stress on the offensive end and not enough stress on the defensive end. I think that showed in the last game. We also have to cut down on turnovers. The biggest part of the meeting was cutting down on the little things. People don't understand that one possession, one breakdown can lead to you winning or losing the game. We've confronted those issues and hopefully we'll learn from them.

Vicki Phillips

Having heard about this, my biggest concern is that we should go back and look at all of the projects he did ... to be sure there isn't anything we should have a concern about, ... Out of fairness to the citizens ... that's the only prudent thing to do.

Jarome Iginla

He's a big part of Hockey Canada, he's probably the biggest part, and it's great that he's coming over to lead our team again.

Brooke Queenan

Her size and the fact she is a presence in the post, that's the biggest thing. Playing her before, we have some experience, knowing when to double when she comes into the paint. She is a great player, and we will have to focus on her.

Richard Smith

Here you have one of the biggest name-brand corporations on the planet getting into what many people in other circumstances would consider hacking. That's just not acceptable.

John Grisham

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

Andy Roddick

I was down in blackjack, now I'm up 600 bucks so I'm pretty excited about that. My dealer was Alfie, and he was being good to me the other night.

Kevin Johnson

I went from being a guy who owned one house and a pool company. A thousand bucks was a lot of money. Now, I own all of these properties. I still look back and say, 'How did all of that happen?' I'm just a regular guy who ended up with all of these holdings. What is strange is it is working out.

Raymond Chandler

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Tammy Cox

I have family and friends who have been there for me and I would not take a million bucks for their love and support.

Jim Maloney

I love flying the blimp. I always wanted to be a blimp pilot. I might have been able to make a few more bucks (as an electrical engineer). But I've had a lot more fun.

Charlie Bell

I'm really happy because I've been working hard overseas the last couple of years to get back to the NBA. The last time I was in the league, it was a learning experience, but now I'm ready to contribute and to help the Bucks win.

Eric Avery

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

Lance Martin

It's outrageous. It's a 50-cent parking violation that costs me 40 bucks a pop. It gets frustrating. It is my fault they are delinquent. I just let them pile up.

Scott Smith

Katrina is limiting the current supply of natural gas into the system, which is increasing the cost on the market.

Bronwyn Belling

It can cost over $15,000 to take out one of these loans.

Mark Oline

It also reinforces the fact that GM will have to make even more significant cuts in their own cost structure going forward.

Levon Kendall

This was a good learning experience for us. We got away from our game plan, and it cost us. We have to stick to the things that have been working for us all year or we're going to keep losing.

Javier Bardem

There are so many movies and it's a waste of time and a waste of money. Basically, movies are made with what it costs the external debt of all Africa.

Mark Rebholz

He shared in the cost for the privilege of being the pilot, ... It worked out well for all of us -- we finished our project and he was part of a grand adventure.

David Holden

I think it's a prime property, ... I know that we're looking for funds, but if we need any properties in the future, it would cost considerably more (to purchase property).

Jarvis Herring

It cost us a couple games early, but then guys started fighting for each other. We could have had a lot better season.

Kay Runge

It costs us probably a third per square foot to run as the other building.

Kate Bush

Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.

Juice Newton

I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits.

will.i.am

I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Russell Baker

A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

Will McDonough

I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

Virginia Woolf

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

Ryan Tedder

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Virginia Foxx

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union and we know how successful that was.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Chris Jordan

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

Dan Shechtman

Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.