Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Gregory Craig

I would urge the relatives in Miami, if they truly want to get back together with Juan Miguel and his family, that they give me a call and let's talk about timing. Let's discuss this in a civilized way, rather than having national press conferences where demands are made.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Brian Finnerty

I would still call it a trading-range market. It's nice for today and the short term, but I doubt it's sustainable.

Marcus Miller

Kanye West took Sean Carter's grown man look to a different level. I remember when white dudes were the only ones who wore blazers and jeans. Now you gotta look like that to even go to the club,

Tracy Morgan

Ladies are honest. They're my motivation. They know what's funny, and the dudes just follow.

Andre Hall

I've done everything I can. I'm excited, but now I'm getting upset. I know I'm going to be upset because I'm not the first running back taken. That already has me mad. I know a lot of dudes will go before me that I know I'm better than.

Stephen Davis

No, I get tackled by dudes all day.

Gerald Henderson

I'd love to guard him, all these other dudes are scared of him. I ain't scared of nobody, especially Wayne, because I know all his moves and stuff.

Steve Wammer

Katie had a tremendous freshman season. She's a very good hitter and has a lot of potential.

Jake Grove

I think it's a great opportunity for us. Obviously last year was disappointing, and this year we have a chance, a fresh slate to come out on national TV - everybody's going to be watching - and show people what we're all about.

Dick Booth

He didn't surprise me. He's quite a guy. He was fresh because he didn't jump in the long jump (Saturday). I think he will end up being special.

John Marhefka

He is one of our top scorers this season, but he still has a long way, like all freshmen do, to understand our system and his role.

John Danowski

Guys are playing their role, more people are playing then ever, we're playing more freshmen and those guys are stepping up. All things are pointing in the right direction.

Brad Buckman

He's a tremendous athlete. Just for being a freshman he's got a huge upside. And he's aggressive. He can rebound the ball. He is going to be good, man, he's going to be real good.

E. O. Wilson

Whatever manager we're playing for, whether it be Pete or Lloyd, we come out with the same goal to win games. We're not looking for a fresh start, we're looking to get back on track.

Suzanne Fox

I think we've got games we can learn from, especially with seven new players and nine of our 15 being freshman or sophomores.

Anthony Principi

it is now time for me to move on to fresh opportunities and different challenges.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

Paul Stephenson

I think we were the better side on the night.

Wayne Gretzky

I will say it one more time, I said it the other night, I didn't bet, it didn't happen, it's not going to happen, it hasn't happened, it's not something that I've done.

Maria Hernandez

He's going to come out that gate, and I'm going to be here awaiting him. We are here day and night because we have hope.

Charna Halpern

He was here two nights in a row.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Johnny Depp

He had watched the film for the first time that night and said it was brilliant.

Steve Peck

He does that night in and night out, he makes the big save.

Robert Cormier

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

Dwyane Wade

I was like, 'Hey, Carmelo Anthony should be playing too.' . . . I think I could have helped.

Jeff Attinella

Kevin's taught me everything I know about playing keeper. He's prepared me for every situation.

John Buck

Just say today's the day and keep playing hard. Hopefully, it's going to end tomorrow.

Jose Reyes

He is playing like the game. He is trying all the time.

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Susumu Tonegawa

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Andy Roddick

Had I served the set out, who knows? ... But I let him back in and he started playing really well.

Marvin Lewis

He's been playing his tail off all year.

Austin Dobson

And I wove the thing to a random rhyme, For the Rose is Beauty, the Gardener, Time.

Rick DiPietro

It's random testing, right, ... They see me and every time it's, 'OK Rick, you're up.'

Nicholas D. Kristof

Random violence is incredibly infectious

Ben Casnocha

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Stephen Jay Gould

[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.

Jillian Garza

We know that it was not a random act.

Robert A. Heinlein

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

Dave Bristow

I don't think it's a random thing and they got lucky. I think they knew.

J. G. Ballard

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

Bruce Bochy

He wanted me to sign it, ... He took it over to me.

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Frostee Rucker

When he stayed back this year it wasn't just to have fun. It was to put his signature on his work.

Crystal Merillat

He had to go sign up. There was no stopping him then.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

Wendy Wasserstein

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

Mike O'Connell

Part of it was the uncertainty of not being able to sign him. If it comes to the summer and he wants to come back, we'll listen. ... I wasn't sure of which way he wanted to go.

Roseanne Barr

In Tulsa, restaurants have signs that say, "Sorry, we're open.

Theo Holtwijk

In concept, I'm willing to sign off on it.

Ricky Fante

I wrote the song in tribute ... at the time she was murdered,

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Estelle

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Robert Cray

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Rob Thomas

I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

Rob Sheffield

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

Rob Sheffield

Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

Rob Sheffield

The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Smokey Robinson

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

Tom Typrowicz

It has never been about me. It's about the girls. It's the songs we sing. It's about CCC and tradition.

Mystikal

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

David Nelson

In 1963 we did every one of these songs with Jerry,

Jennifer Zimmerman

These are not songs for women who twirl their parasols. These are songs for women who get dusty.

Kacey Musgraves

It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

Bob Blyer

I try to play a lot of songs that have 'love' in the title.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Cindy Davidsmeyer

I did talk to him (after the angioplasty) and he sounds wonderful.

Jay Siegel

I don't know where that sound comes from,

Robert Crais

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.

Mark Grindstaff

Joel is real dominant. He didn't have any trouble. He has one loss. All three are undefeated in league.

Chris Edwards

What we had in 16 acres, ... they have in three counties.

Spencer Stewart

Going 30-0 is amazing, but we want three more wins.

Clark Haggans

He's got three rings. There's nothing else you can say.

Karen Woodall

We've been trying to get that back for three years.

Phil Jackson

We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.

Robert Meyer

It is phenomenal. When we first started, it was just me and three employees. We all wore many hats.

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.

Richelle Mead

I didn’t care about anything except her and the way touching her drove me wild, even as her calm and steady presence soothed the storms that raged within me.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie

Walter Benjamin

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

Henry Rollins

Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

Pope Francis

Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

Natsuki Takaya

He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!

Terence McKenna

Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

Kathryn Stockett

Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.