Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight Yorke

Keep the faith. We know we are heading in the right direction.

David Thwaites

I suspect it's going to be a fairly weaker open. Stocks are still looking for direction in Europe -- there are no big macro drivers today.

Charles Blood

I think investors should be back in the market. The direction is up from here.

Taha Ramadan

It (Iraq) is cooperating with all initiatives in this direction provided there is no encroachment on Iraq's sovereignty and security,

Tim Wakefield

I think with Jason as our captain, he can lead us in the right direction.

Kate Warne

I think that the market is in a wait-and-see mood to see whether there is any direction in Friday's reports.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Dale Tallon

We talked about the direction we're going in and how valuable he would be to us on and off the ice with our young kids. He was high on our list.

Karen Brand

We've been very pleased with the direction that the festival is taking. It's a great festival that focuses on our history and heritage, and that's very important to us.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Steve Box

Jake did a great job defensively. The kid has been averaging 17 points a game, but we took him out of his rhythm. He never really got going until the last quarter.

Lawrence Summers

Jack Meyer did a great job for Harvard.

Brad Hintz

I would say they're the weakest trading house on Wall Street.

David Gregory

Kelly O'Donnell at the White House for us this morning. Kelly thanks very much.

David Stanley

He didn't go over to that guy's house for a confrontation, he just wanted to know what was going on.

Mike Nichols

What we've offered is a house where they could all live.

Jerry Shuster

He (O'Connor) can't be indiscriminate. He can't tear down a house here and tear down a house there, because then it looks like it's more for show. But if they can do three, even though they need 30 taken down, if those three are strategic, it's a tremendous plus.

Cecil Roberts

going under your house and taking the support beams out.

Kim Etheredge

He's downsizing. It's 15,000 square feet. That's a very large house for one person.

Fred Siegel

It is a joy to live (on campus), and it is a pleasure to open my house to students,

Stan Turner

We try to get to every house in Keizer.

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

Bill Fleming

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

Richard Dawkins

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

Woody Guthrie

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

Rod Serling

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

F. Stone

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.

John Audubon

I must put myself in a train of doing... and thereby keep the machine in motion.

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Jim Bunning

I will not be able to support his nomination on the Senate floor.

Roger Ebert

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

Will Arnett

Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.

Frankie Muniz

I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

Howard Dean

probably the most mismanaged nomination I've ever seen by the White House.

Charles Krauthammer

This nomination is a catastrophe, ... I don't think there is a way she can end up being confirmed.

Jerry Seinfeld

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

Steve Young

Our whole strategy has been to get through the primary, get the nomination and then things will open up,

Emma Thompson

Having reached 40 this year, if they were going to find someone to play opposite me they'd have to exhume him.

Rick Masi

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Richard Dawkins

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Tracy Austin

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Sam Walton

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

William Hamilton Maxwell

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Eric Hinske

I couldn't see the spin of the ball.

Ron Gardenhire

I'm kind of spinning a little bit, to tell you the truth.

Jake Gyllenhaal

There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

John Murtha

You can't spin this. You've got to have a real solution, ... This is not a war of words, this is a war.

Tom Watson

The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you're making a golf swing. Your neck, your spine, your hands, your knees, everything.

Lauren Oliver

That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.

Justin Berfield

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

Mahatma Gandhi

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

Bruce Willis

Just Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Ashraf Nubani

Just stop the pain, I'll say anything, ... one lash after another.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Josh Fodor

He was stopping everything. We had a lot of opportunities but couldn't get any in.

James Rubin

I don't know who talked first. Let's just stop it, okay?

Mike McBride

He was unbelievable. We couldn't have stopped him with 16 tanks.

Robert Schumann

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

William Devane

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Sarah Silverman

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

Sara Blakely

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

Trevor Noah

When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.

Tracy Morgan

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.

Robert Reich

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

Robert Mugabe

We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.