Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Alexander

A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in.

Paul Formica

As he got older, he just became intimidated by these computers. It was kind of devastating for him.

Doug Aplin

As he got older, he became stronger and his speed improved. He also grew defensively.

John Suchy

As a result of the police investigation it was determined that he had, in fact, been in the restaurant, became intoxicated and became involved in an altercation with a bouncer.

David Chang

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.

Dan Webster

As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

Gian Carlo Menotti

As a little boy of 3 or 4, I became lame. Something was wrong with my right leg. There are pictures of me being pulled around in a little wagon. The doctors didn't know what to do. So my nanny took me to the miraculous Madonna at Sacro Monte in Varese, the priest blessed me, and I walked.

Manuel Miranda

The calls to withdraw are serious, and they're going to increase. The more that we heard from the nomination's defenders, the more people became convinced that there was no substance in the nomination and that her friends were her worst enemies.

Manuel Miranda

The calls to withdraw are serious, and they're going to increase, ... The more that we heard from the nomination's defenders, the more people became convinced that there was no substance in the nomination and that her friends were her worst enemies.

David Wilson

The sump pump that was in here had failed. The water level reached the top of the pit and began flowing out into the rest of the house.

M. J. Rose

I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.

Evelyn Rodriguez

The music began and he started singing and gyrating, so much that the flatbed and truck were bouncing up off the ground. I had never seen or heard anything like this before in my life.

Aileen Carroll

The mother obviously began to cry when she was told. She had walked a number of kilometres, but the doctors said she had waited too long.

Michael Winter

A few years ago, I was trying to buy a piece of land next to a house I had in Newfoundland. I discovered that the plot had been owned by a family, and the son had gone off to World War I and been killed. It began to interest me: What would have happened on that land if the son had lived, had brought up his own family there?

Stijn Streuvels

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

Ian Spector

After a month or so, the novelty began to wear off. So I, like, put up a poll to see who the next one should be about. There were about 12 people on my list. Chuck Norris wasn't there at all. But I got a lot of e-mails saying, 'Put on Chuck Norris, put on Chuck Norris.' So I did, and he won by a landslide.

James Sinclair

After a great start, they began running their offense patiently, building a pretty big lead. We were a bit rusty, having not played since Dec. 6.

Publilius Syrus

A friendship that can end never really began

Dennis Fowler

Any time a team can win 20 games in one season, it?s something to remember for a long time. It says a lot for such a young team that they came together and won 14 of their last 16 games.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Art Hogan

An overly robust economy came to a screeching halt, so there's much more of a backlog of production capacity and inventory,

Johnny Gray

A sense of urgency came over the team. Once a team gets down like we did, you just have to keep doing what you're good at.

Jay McKee

As disappointing as it is to lose, there was a positive, and it was the third period. We gave ourselves a chance to win, just came up a little short, but that's certainly the momentum we wanted to end this game with.

David Silverman

As far as I know, the traveling of any mummies was not an issue in this exhibition. It never came up,

KJ Choi

As far as my putting, literally 10 minutes before I went out for my first round, this feel came back to me like in 2002. That same feeling came back to me. I was able to carry that throughout the tournament.

Mathias Kiwanuka

As far as motivation goes, if we didn't have it before two days ago, we definitely found it. I think that had a lot to do with why we came out so strong.

Randy Harrison

As far as mentally and being focused for the game, we definitely were riding a high coming in at 2-1. It was the first time ever they've had a winning record. And I think they came in a little complacent. Logansport was much more focused and they outworked us.

Damien Woody

Any time an organization hasn't won a lot, you have to change the culture. No question we're a better team on paper. But everyone has to have the same level of urgency.

Damon Galgut

Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.

Kevin Doll

As far as we know, these (girls) are the only victims. But that could change once it is made public.

Katinka Barysch

As economic competition increases and the pace of change accelerates, governments are trying to tighten their grip on what levers they have.

Lance Ness

As duck hunters out in the field, we see that something's changed rather rapidly in the past 10 to 20 years. And so our concerns are what happening to the duck population.

Douglas Alexander

As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.

Frank Vargo

As helpful as these individual steps are, they need to be followed by systemic changes that will put our trade relationship on a more fair basis.

Steve Letarte

As far as pumping up the team, we reorganized a little personnel on the team. I'm excited with the changes we've made.

Lewis Uhler

As far as I'm concerned, the Legal Services Corp. (which funds CRLA) had been the cutting edge of the left in America, of liberals in America, to change our society in their image and at a cost to the taxpayer,

Sylvia Pankhurst

A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

Richard Danzig

a wonderful opportunity for the city of New York and the Navy to combine together to display the nature of sea power.

Carlos Torres

As of this point, we most definitely know we have one in Orange County and one in the city of Winter Garden.

John Sattler

As of late last night, we have been in all parts of the city, ... We have liberated the city of Falluja.

Julie Laird

Rainier is the city of license, but since we are so close, we can actually run the station from our offices in Longview.

Steve Sigmund

Ramon Martinez is a senior person with enormous and valuable experience in the Council and in city and federal government.

Thomas Finlan

Rather than Oil City starting those two classes ourselves and have those two teachers be without jobs, we would rather have their knowledge and expertise in their classrooms.

Donald Rumsfeld

problem that's faced by police forces in every major city in our country - that criminals infiltrate and sign up to join the police force.

Darrell Smith

Problems and delays in the implementation of Hansen 8 have become a significant concern in the city administration as well as City Council.

Thomas Sadoski

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

Derek Bok

What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.

Juan Felipe Herrera

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

E. P. Thompson

I don't want them to be happy today. I want them to be happy a decade from now.

Dave Howard

One of the reasons it's been so well received is we've been reaching out for a decade now, so we have legitimacy. But certainly, having Hispanic superstars takes it to another level.

Mark Reid

I have spent more than a decade developing the calibration techniques we needed to obtain this result.

E. B. White

I have been at the forefront of federal politics for more than a decade . . . it's time to recharge the batteries.

James D. Watson

Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

Dan Jenkins

High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.

Jimmy Stewart

So much of what we have taken for granted has been ripped from us,

David Warren

All applications are looked at on their merit. I don't have a problem with them making applications. Whether they get granted or not is a whole other issue.

Tim Kaine

I am not taking anything for granted.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Darren Sinnaeve

In the second half, we played real hard, pressed hard, got up in their faces. In the first half, we relied on 3-point shooting. We had one 2-pointe and seven 3s. Granted it was a zone defense, but we did a lot of standing around.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

Shania Twain

I don't take any day for granted anymore.

Rick Sandlin

We were hollering '3,' and when I got over to the corner, he said he didn't hear it, and I probably should've called timeout and made sure he understood that. I think I took it a little too much for granted for this young man to know what to do, being down three with 18 seconds or so.

Ralph Trine

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

Robert Quine

To me, the positive thing about it was we were pulling out these old influences like the Velvet Underground and the Stooges that were gone.

Michael W. Smith

Really, I could care less if there's a Second Decade record.

Michael Stang

Any other place, it would be way less important.

Colin White

Anything less than a win is not acceptable.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal after the protesters vented their steam by targeting us.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Leslie Fiedler

The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Rick Riordan

The older I get, the less I obsess about material stuff. In fact, stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

Chantalle Rye

Actually, I would've thought there would be less tears, but there wasn't. There was just as many tears, but this time they were tears of joy.

Charles Emery

Some studies say that obese people are more tolerant of pain, while other studies say they are less tolerant.

James Shapiro

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

Jeevan Sivasubramaniam

As long as the book's vision is about something that's making life better for all people. That's our criteria.

Francis Mathew

As long as life exist, Overtaking is allowed.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

Asif Kapadia

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

Rich Coleman

Reading and writing are life skills that everyone should have the opportunity to learn,

Anthony Head

People said, 'That's going to be around your neck for the rest of your life. I didn't have a problem with it.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Guy deBord

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Frank Zappa

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Giorgio Armani

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

George Eliot

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

Lili Taylor

My thing is that anybody's interesting if you go into the complexities. That's my problem with the whore. We've seen the whore, obviously, two-dimensionally, one-dimensionally. But if we're truly going to portray a whore in a complicated light, then I'm interested.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Wavy Gravy

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

Richard Carroll

Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.

Mario Gabelli

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Hugh Johnson

It's not the stocks you pick, it's the structure of your portfolio that counts,

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Andre Breton

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Sherdrick Bonner

San Jose was the only team willing to give him a shot.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Taron Egerton

I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.

Tom Araya

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

Shelley Morrison

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Norman Foster

Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

Randy Cretors

If we don't play San Benito, I'd probably get fired.

Robert Scoble

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

Aubrey O'Day

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

Melanie Fiona

Canada can be tough for urban music.

David Guterson

I'm not an urban person.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Auguste Comte

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Juvenal

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Barry Watson

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.