Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Goodwin

If there was somebody you'd want to spend a night with, aside from Lincoln, it would be Seward. He reminded me a lot of (Winston) Churchill, this kind of larger-than-life figure.

Mark Madsen

I know it's going to be emotional for everyone, because Fred is such a great friend and such a great teammate. Aside from the emotion, it's going to be happiness. Because circumstances were such that, hey, the organization made a decision and that's just the way it goes. There's no hard feelings, either way.

Tom DeLay

I have notified the speaker that I will temporarily step aside from my position,

Jamie King

I hadn't swum very well and had been entered into a race I didn't want to swim. He pulled me aside in front of the whole team and had a 10-minute rant and rave and told me I was the worst swimmer he had ever worked with. A lot of people were scared of Bill but no one would really stand up to him. He's caused a lot of people to give up.

Skylar Astin

I like that 'Pitch Perfect' is one of my first forays into film and just being seen in that kind of light, aside from some people who know me from 'Spring Awakening' or the other things that I've done. I think in so many ways it's kind of like my own 'Glee' or 'Smash'.

John Maine

I'm not bad at it, but I'm not great at it, either. Aside from their unbelievable stuff, their concentration is what sets them apart. They go about things in a business-like way.

Patrick Stump

I'm really glad I put aside whatever ego I had and just let (Wentz) be free,

Mary Barnes

I hope we do everything possible so that fragile and impaired elders are not left behind, and that they do not get pushed aside in wheelchairs with blankets covering their heads because they have expired.

Clint Wallman

I just can't say enough about Shannon. She deserved a first-team selection. I think she had an outstanding year and possibly one of best in school history. We are going to miss her. Aside from her performance week-in and week-out, she was a great leader and mentor for the girls.

Hanya Yanagihara

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Mike Lowell

Josh was crying to me for five years with the Marlins that he always wanted No. 19 so I told him I'd be willing to give it up. I think change is good sometimes. So I figured why not? I'm on a new team, new number and everything is new. I'm kind of starting from scratch. I feel good about that.

John Silvia

I suspect that there's a little optimism that the Fed will signal that they are just about done, that they'll change their language from saying 'further policy firming may be' to saying it 'might be' needed.

Craig Hansen

I think it really changed the way some scouts look at Northeast kids and how they play ball.

Jim Zandri

I think it is a combination of things. A lot has changed in New Year's over the past few years.

Jim Duquette

It all started in his mind right after his wife went into the hospital. He started thinking about whether he really had the desire to keep going. We let him take a couple extra days just to make sure that was his final decision. He's not going to change his mind at this point.

Mack Brown

It¹s a compliment, because it¹s a place we haven¹t been in a long time and it sets our standard even higher. We also understand that the percentage points and the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. That's the only thing we have control over. It¹s only October, and what we want to do is to be one of the top two teams in December.

Laura Miller

It also would help, of course, if we had the movie shot here, so we could change some of the old ?Dallas? TV show stereotypes that have lasted all these years.

Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Annika Sorenstam

I just thought that is pretty neat. She comes from a small town, just like I do, and I thought, 'Wow! If she can do that, maybe I can follow my dreams and one day be able to follow her path.

Jeff Mangum

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

Lucy Lawless

I'm thrilled that women are encouraged to follow their dreams and I am equally pleased that young men are getting a new view of women: an unapologetic woman.

Hilary Clinton

In my dreams I meet six New Yorkers I screwed over. Whether I did it legally or not is irrelevant.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Randy Smith

The last four years have been great. It's a lot of coaches' dreams to be at the state tournament, and it was a dream for me. But these are super, super kids. It's hard to let them go.

Jonathan Lewis

It's a game every kid who plays football dreams about playing in. This is just a dream come true.

Joe Girardi

I took this situation because I wanted this situation and I wanted these kids. We all want to help these kids succeed. We all want to help them realize their dreams and become great players.

Rebecca West

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Walter Bagehot

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Sarah Fielding

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

Samuel Johnson

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Samuel Johnson

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

Samuel Johnson

The triumph of hope over experience.

Sarah Kay

One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your action expresses your priorities.

Oswald Chambers

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God ...

Olivia Wilde

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

Arlen Specter

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

Peter Lynch

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

Leland Ryken

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

Karen Mills

President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Samuel Johnson

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Warren Beatty

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

Virginia Woolf

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

Virginia Woolf

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.