Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward P. Jones

The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

Brigitte Nielsen

Im 48 now and I would like to have another baby. I would love to because of all the things I have learned. It would be like starting all over again. But am I too old? Im young at heart and I would be different this time round.

Charles Bukowski

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

E. Hurley

You don't have two 18-year-old kids go into a hotel and have a baby without medical training and say he's innocent. He did something wrong, but we're not sure what he did wrong.

Leonard Sax

There's no such thing as a child; there are only boys and girls. Even if you present a 6-month-old male baby with a choice between a truck and doll, he's going to choose the truck.

Adrian Fenty

There's no way in the world when I get elected that I will throw the baby out with the bath water,

Tim White

There's not enough Advil being made to keep baby boomers going forever. We're looking for their kids and grandkids to come.

Gina Jones

What was my baby thinking when he was down on the ground and they were doing those things to him? Was he thinking that 'my mom said it would be OK' when they had their knees in his back?

Lou Panzanaro

We weren't sure he would graduate on some days when he was a junior. I was worried he'd come back home if he got upset with his playing time. Coach Calhoun wasn't going to baby him.

Mark Gordon

I think the public has always been fascinated by crime. Crime in American fiction dates from the 20s, 30s and 40s in potboiler novels and film noir, not to mention tabloid journalism. In the past few years, TV just figured out a way to capitalize on that in a different manner.

Taylor Jacobs

We can't really control that. We have to do what coach says to do. We just need to capitalize on all of our opportunities, but that's something that's really not in our hands.

Alan Ackerman

One more solid salvo from the Fed, combined with a tax cut, could be the combustible combination to get the market going.

Jorge Sampaio

combined the public exposure it received from its musical success with the protection of humanitarian causes.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually, the combined total from Washington up to George W. Bush. President Obama has racked up more spending, $1 trillion deficits. And it's time that he join us in this effort to get our fiscal house in order.

Patrick Casselman

The earnings evolution is definitely slowing in Europe. Combined with rising interest rates and an excellent performance over the last few months, we can expect the market to take a pause.

Randy Sherman

I think that served as a lesson to them. Every thing ending up alright.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Curtis Armstrong

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Swedish Proverb

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees

Rod Lache

I don't see this as resulting in anything dramatically negative. Over time, you'll see incentives rising everywhere. But it's not anything scary yet.

Jennifer Dunn

We are actually still working with Chico's, and there are incentives involved because it's very important for us to keep this kind of headquarters in this community, and we feel like Chico's has a lot to offer to the community.

David Limbaugh

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

Dave Van Ronk

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

Jeff Reinebold

This is where I want to be. I love this program, and I love working for June Jones.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

George Beranek

This is really pulling out the big guns. If you think about it, this is working at the margin with a very large volume, so it's going to have a very pronounced price effect.

Jim Hartman

We just could not stop Dennett. He played large tonight.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Jonathan Zittrain

The rest of the world doesn't want to see US hegemony here, in large part just for symbolic reasons,

Benj Steinman

It was a major overhang. The unsettled nature of it was a large potential liability. Settling this, I'm sure, was a priority for them.

Kevin Doll

It wasn't a large operation. It was maybe for his own use.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Alexander Calder

The next step in sculpture is motion.

Aldous Huxley

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Aldous Huxley

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

Aldous Huxley

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Aristotle

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Edward Greenspan

Everything that we know about the United States tells us that they will not respect any protective order here. They will do whatever they can to get the evidence.

Jean Claude

Everything possible is being done in order to prevent the occurrence of such a catastrophe in France.

Kwame Scruggs

You have to have order in your lives.

Scott Macartney

You have to take risks, in order to get the reward.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Maisie Williams

I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Ben Chaplin

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Charlton Heston

It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.

Laurence Housman

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

Sam Johnson

We were friends for 40 years. He was quite a character.

Jane Bryant Quinn

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

Michael Phelps

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

Jeffrey Kluger

Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

Esther Hicks

Your life is right now! It's not later! It's not in that time of retirement. It's not when the lover gets here. It's not when you've moved into the new house. It's not when you get the better job. Your life is right now. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it's not ever going to get better than right now-until it gets better right now!

Ezra Taft Benson

Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.

Evel Knievel

She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Nobody knows what the future holds, but right now, I'm cool and comfortable and having no second thoughts at all about retirement. I had a good career, I won every world title, but boxing is wear and tear on the body. It's time to hang 'em up. I'm looking forward to working with some up-and-coming kids, going on walks, and taking vacations.

George Washington

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

Garth Brooks

My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.