Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

Ellen G. White

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

Joe Bugel

We couldn't be any more pleased with his progress, ... When he learns how to bend his knees and do the things that he's doing right now, he'll be perennial all-pro.

Ike Taylor

We came out flat in the first half. Coach told us to bend but don't break. The offense had an opportunity, and they went out and made a play.

Richard Carlson

Typically you issue those releases when you get partial payment. We were bending over backward, issuing them even when we were not getting partial payment. We stopped doing that when they filed bankruptcy.

Kathleen Brown

Usually, the limiting factor for roses is water. If the rose is not getting enough water, it will let you know. Bent neck is the common sign that water uptake is not adequate, and the upper stem bends over because it is the weakest part.

Mark McKinnon

Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful.

Reggie Lee

I would love to play a normal human being with a little bit of a comedic bend that had a love interest. I would love to explore comedy, like a half-hour kind of single-camera comedy. I think that would kind of suit me best.

Marc Solomon

Most of the golf instruction out there does everything but establish consistency on the course. It would be as if I continued practicing my typing once a week, but each time I tried a new style. One week I would hold my fingers over the middle row of keys and bend my fingers at a 90 degree angle, then the next week move to the top row and only bend them 75 degrees, and the next week over the bottom row, etc. At that rate I'd get worse and never finish a Golf Improvement Weekly.

William Fichtner

Here's the bottom line: I can't play someone if I can't figure out what he cares about. Everybody cares about something, even a rough character. It defines where we step in life. As soon as you find out what somebody cares about, then it all gets real.

Don Warren

The pedigree on the bottom is good for 1 1/8 miles or a mile and a quarter.

John Sullivan

The pastors have to rise to the occasion. That's the bottom line.

Big Sean

I got this tiger head ring that's similar to a Cartier ring. I had my jeweler Sean from Detroit make it similar to the Cartier ring, but gold and diamonded-out. That's my Detroit tiger. It's made with two different golds - the bottom is yellow and the top is gold.

David Pratt

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

Richard Rogers

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

Gore Vidal

The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

John Edward

The American people need to get to the bottom of this,

Ron Brant

We could have even a stronger program team than '04. We're trying not to let the bottom fall.

Chet Faker

I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it's kind of a nice thing.

Andy Nieto

We've maintained that consistency on offense and have been able to score runs all year.

Chan Gailey

We're working with so many combinations because of all the guys missing, so there was no level of consistency on either side of the ball. We had some great individual plays, but not much consistency. But I think you expect that in spring practice. Neither side should dominate.

Robby Wine

We have a lot more depth, a lot more experience. We'll be a lot more ready for the Big Ten this year. The consistency and experience we have this year is a lot better than last year.

Brian Dunseth

We just want to make it so we have some sort of consistency,

Stan Heath

We haven't really had much consistency away from home this year. We wanted to establish that we can win on the road, and we did that today.

Andy Brunner

We couldn't get any offensive rhythm going. It's a consistency thing for us. We have a good team, but the consistency just isn't there yet.

Jeff Tedford

I think last year consistency was an issue with him.

Miranda Sissons

Judicial positions are not musical chairs. There has to be some measure of consistency to be sure the trial has integrity.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Louis Wong

The peak of the interest rate cycle may be much higher than expected. Continued inflation in the US indicated a need for a rate hike for few more times until next year.

Anthony Weiner

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

Harry Reid

The American people are demanding a comprehensive plan and the benchmarks by which to measure our success for the war in Iraq, ... The president's continued refusal to provide that plan does nothing to support our troops or their families.

Dave Barney

That was a team thing. A lot of kids continued to put up a few points here and there for us to win it.

Mardy Collins

We could have gone two ways after that we could have gone in the tank and continued to play sub par. But we took it upon ourselves to talk to each other and try to come out and play better.

Mike Harper

We could have crumbled there, but we continued to persevere. We don't like to do anything real easy, but we executed when we needed to.

Renny Harlin

I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.

Elizabeth Warren

People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner.

David H. Murdock

I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.

Antoine Lavoisier

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Bertrand Russell

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

Jeremy Sweet

We were stationed in Pascagoula, Miss., which is about as far southeast as you can go. It was hot, hot, hot - nearly 100 degrees - and very humid every day.

Karen Broach

We have a high degree of flexibility to reach out and touch our demographics. The Latino package is a prime example. We don't offer a Latino tier in every market because the market doesn't demand that. In Madison, a Latino tier is necessary and important to consumers.

Gao Xuedong

We have been trying to make breakthroughs in the degree of difficulty in the summer training.

Herb Sendek

We're really not at liberty to talk about it. What I can tell you is that Gavin is a true gentleman, and he is working hard to pursue his degree at N.C. State.

Paula McLain

I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.

Todd Rundgren

I want to be known as a professional weirdo. There aren't many Salvador Dalis or Buckminster Fullers left. If I become popular enough, I can establish the next step for records.

Yayoi Kusama

I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.

Gregg Brandon

We could never establish any momentum. Their offense kept us off the field for long stretches and we were never able to sustain anything.

Dale Lennon

We'll put a full rush on the punt team to establish protection and put a little stress on the snapper.

Karl Hobbs

We wanted to go into Pops and establish the inside position. We competed at all times, and at times our offense was magnificent.

Jim Amormino

With the gunman dead, we may never be able to establish a motive. Of course, only he knows that. We'll try investigative procedures. Again, it's going to be difficult. Once we look into his mental health, that may provide us some insight into what happened.

Harvey Pekar

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

Brad Eldred

I thought it went OK. I got my feet wet and was able to kind of establish myself a little bit. I did some things well and found out I still have some things to work on.

Nick Hardwick

We have not made any assumptions and for the sake of Jean Charles' family, officers within the MPS and the public at large, will try to establish the truth in an impartial, proportionate and timely way.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.

Richard Thompson

Imagining playing the guitar is a slightly looser thing than playing it. You can hear more things sometimes. The fingers of your imagination aren't quite as hidebound as your real fingers.

Brooke Bingaman

Keep your fingers crossed. Wednesday looks like a break.

Joel Maturi

We're obviously not doing something right. We can't keep pointing fingers at the kids. I have to look at Pam and myself first before we start looking at others. I knew there were some playing time issues, but what does it lead to? Is this the reason (for the departures) or is something else there?

Dusty Baker

He hadn't had anything to this point. We'll keep our fingers crossed.

Tony Raines

I don't know anything officially, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. It's an opportunity of a lifetime. I think these are the right guys at the right time for me.

Frank Ostanik

I didn't, for whatever reason, get our guys to play hard. I can't point fingers at our guys because I didn't get them ready to play the way they needed to.

Chris Carpenter

When I was out there in the sixth, my hands and my fingers started cramping up, ... The same thing happened when I went up to hit.

John Grahame

With the wind chill, it's forecast to be that way Monday, so we kind of got our fingers crossed.

Edward Snowden

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.

Nancy Gibbs

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

Adam Scott

That would finish off the year, and I'd be pretty happy.

Joe Godinho

That was the third time he had to wrestle his kid in the last three weeks. It was a tighter match, but Kevin finished strong.

Chris Johnson

That was the first thing that hit me. I knew I had to find a place to try and finish my senior year, so I'd have a chance.

Jeong Jang

That was the first long putt today. Good finish going into tomorrow.

Lauren Bechtold

That was something that's exceptional to be able to hear. To finish with all of these girls, it was incredible.

Brian Curran

That was a huge goal. Samy had a great all-around game and that was a nice way for him to finish it off.

John Ellinger

We have two games left, we need to win an away game. We want to win, we don't want to finish the season with 12 straight losses.

Donald Trump

The interesting thing is that everyone in golf is just nice. You learn a lot about people playing golf: their integrity, how they play under pressure.

Cathy Rigby

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

Bill Bryson

After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

Bill Burr

It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there. Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, 'What do you think you're doing!' The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.

Thomas Bjorn

That was the worst day in my golfing life. I tried to keep it together but it just didn't work out.

Vaughn Taylor

Today was a pretty boring, uneventful round of golf, but I'm thrilled.

Chris Plummer

We have more left-handed golfers here than any store I've been in. We can use all the technology, give them the same fittings.

Sammi Sloan

Who leaves a lawn mower in the middle of the golf course? I mean, think about it -- what are the chances?

Zach Johnson

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

Gail Carriger

I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.

Connie Mack

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

Amisha Patel

Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.

David Pratt

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!

David Eagleman

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

Neil Strauss

There can be people who are feminist, and people who hold the completely opposite view but are still feminists. It seems to me from the outside that there's a lot of people busy fighting each other rather than working toward their goals. It's a shame.

Pete MacArthur

That was tough. There's no sense in trying to hold it back.

Lee May

We could hit. We had a problem with pitching. We had pitchers nobody else wanted. We would score a lot of runs, but we couldn't hold them.

Sandra Tsing Loh

There's an image that some of us have of Jackie Onassis, stepping out in the rain, and Maurice Tempelsman is holding her umbrella. We want that man. We want the man to be the concierge and the masseur and the travel booker.

John Bryan

We have traditionally had inspectors who really know a lot about the business. They seem to be getting the job done. And while we've seen some improvement in permits, we're still a long way from where we should be.

Steven Wood

Wholesalers had been struggling with bulging inventories through the winter and spring, ... However, plunging sales had largely thwarted their efforts. July's improvement is a welcome respite in this struggle.

John Lonski

I think this testimony is much more confident. His worry that the improvement will not be sustained is less pronounced.

Dick Bennett

We have not shown the improvement I expected.

Serhan Cevik

Whichever variable you look at, it's a big improvement.

Maureen Caddigan

Basically, his job is on the line unless we see some sort of improvement here.

Jack Rio

From '03 to '04 there was improvement, from '04 to this year there was more improvement.

David Ganey

He showed improvement all season long and that paid off with a trip to the state tournament.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Carl Sagan

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

Carl Sagan

Cleverly designed experiments are the key.

William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

William Shakespeare

Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. *Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*

Jason Mills

I think one of the keys was at the end of the first quarter being down only three points.

Thomas Quincey

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Tom Cash

The people that are never looked at are those who have a legitimate reason to be there. These are the people with the keys to the kingdom.

DJ Paul

Now when it comes to getting bread I got the keys to the bakery

DJ Quik

The key to success is to be easy to work with.

Nina Easton

Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged.

F. Sionil Jose

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

Davey Lopes

That was right on the middle of the plate. That's what he told me to say.

Phil McGraw

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.

Mike Greene

We're working with a number of other agencies. All I can say is we're in the middle of the investigation.

Bryce Fisher

Middle linebacker is the quarterback of the defense, and for that responsibility to be put on a rookie is rare in this league.

Jason Taylor

We have people out in the middle of nowhere come here and are on death's doorstep.

William Butler Yeats

Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,That long to give themselves for wage,To shake their wicked sides at youthRestraining reckless middle age?

Luke Clausen

It hasn't really sunk in yet. It's like you're in the middle of a dream.

Chet Faker

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

Joseph Grundfest

The pig may have moved through the python.

Carl Orff

Elemental music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener but as a co-performer.

Carl Rogers

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

Dick Lee

That was a smart move on her part.

Mike Clarke

That was a gutsy move on their part and a visionary move. They saw there was a problem.

Rutina Wesley

At Julliard, they don't teach you where to move your face for the camera, you know?

Steven Arabia

We were going to move as quickly as we could to get the plant back into service . . . and this is the first step in that process.

Rick Carlisle

We've moved on. It's unfortunate. But we're just trying to win without him.

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

Tyler Graunke

We're used to practicing in the heat. I don't think USC will be ready for the heat.

Philippe Petit

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.

Kimmie Meissner

I think I could have done much better. I've been practicing a lot better, but it's my first pretty big international competition, so I think I did pretty good.

Chuck Barta

If it wasn't a bye week, he probably would be practicing and going through the things he had been going through.

Royce Waltman

He's been practicing and he's in school, but I'm not sure what his status is going to be.

Rob Gronkowski

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.

Donald Glover

I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.

David Gilmour

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

Chuck Amato

We've been getting them up early. We've been practicing early. It don't know if that has any consequence. Whether that makes a difference, I don't know.

Yoshihiko Noda

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Juergen Michels

That will probably keep the ECB waiting until September, rather than going for a rate rise, as a done deal, every quarter.

Glenn Thomas

We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.

Day One

We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.

Jill Dougherty

I think one of the misconceptions is that it is fatal. If it's detected early, the five-year survival rate is 95%.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Astro Teller

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Ryan Howard

Wow, two wins in a row at home? That's big isn't it?

Mike Day

We've been here three years in a row ... we're the most experienced team left.

Jim Shannon

We've won three in a row now. We're getting better. This is the time of year you like to see that. We feel like we're starting to turn the corner.

Diane Ackerman

Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

Rich Bixby

We didn't play well, but I will take it. To get to Troy three years in a row is special.

Ned Yost

We need two in a row to get us over the hump.

Brandon Makela

That's two wins in a row for us.

Josh Smith

That's the first time we've won three in a row since I've been here.

English Proverb

Everyone must row with the oars he has

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Michelle Reinig

We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.

Angus MacMillan

I wouldn't want to put a top on it at the moment. It has still got a lot of wind in its sales.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Gary Hudson

For us to come out on top again, we've got to play hard, smart, and unselfishly.

Gary Linden

Going from underdog to top dog is exciting, but it comes with problems.

Gary Wright

We're on top of each other. It's very crowded.

Ed Burnsed

He is one of the top sprinters in the state.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

Peter Scolari

My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.

Joe Nappi

Wherever there was an event, we tried to be there with buckets.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Novak

We've tried A.J. at fullback and other types of things.

Sidney Crosby

I was too close, so I tried to back off and whack it. I didn't get it.

Phil Flynn

Yesterday we had the big sell-off and we tried to come back a little bit.

Shannon Miller

We really tried to find where we had some duplication of services. It was one of our lesser-used facilities.

Truman Capote

It isn't writing at all - it's typing

Carrie Fisher

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

Joan Bonvicini

That week was surreal. We were numb, we made it through it.

James Blake

It doesn't get better than this, ... If every week were like this I would never retire.

Dena Crews

We're celebrating it all week here at the library.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Mike Holmgren

I was going to come out and wing it around. It had nothing to do with the week before.

Tom Chambers

I wish we could have been there a week before,

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Chuck Hill

I would have expected, even without FD, to see more preannouncements this quarter. Things are worse out there.

Dusty Baker

He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday.

Quentin Richardson

Just when I thought we couldn't get any worse or go any lower, we find another way to do it.

Derrick Brooks

It could be a whole lot worse then where we are.

Katharine Cornell

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

Richard Madden

I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.

Gerhard Richter

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.

Craig Barlow

That was even worse than being in the right bunker.

Sean McCarthy

If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner.