Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Mark Shapiro

Coco and Grady have similar skills, and we're extremely excited about Grady's future. Coco profiles best as a center fielder, which allowed us to be opportunistic and get a whole lot of value for him, which, in the end, was too much to turn down.

Pat Riley

Antoine is capable of having an outrageous night. I was going to sub for him but I just wanted to get him one more possession. We allowed Antoine to bring it up a couple of times. He hit a three and I kept him in the game.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent companyin this case, Enronis not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent company in this case, Enron is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent company - in this case, Enron - is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent company -- in this case, Enron -- is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent companyùin this case, Enronùis not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Peter Sellars

And the other great thing that we're allowed to do and you're not is use metaphor.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Sandy Baum

What it means is that they'll have to borrow a little more money and repay it at a higher interest rate.

Seymour Cassel

Many people came out and said, 'Boy I'd love to make a film that way.' Well, borrow some money, get some people together - you can get people to work for nothing, just treat them right, treat them as human beings, not stars, give them all an equal share, make them feel a part of what they're doing. There's no big secret to it.

Scottish Proverbs

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Dambisa Moyo

I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

Don Rahn

You can borrow more, but you still have to pay it back.

Enos Cabell

He pushed me to another way. I ended up being a businessman for like 15 years after that. He always watched out for me. He wanted to know what I was doing and how I was doing it and if I needed any help. I called him for advice, and if I needed to borrow some money he'd lend me the money. He was better than a bank.

Aleksandr Lebed

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

Dave Eggers

I'd rather people just borrow the idea and do their own thing in their own community, ... Whenever people can just start on their own, without our imprimatur, all the better. The model works, but we don't own the patent.

Jim Harper

This is a symbol of what's to come - that is, the government expecting to be able to dip into private databases to do all kind of surveillance and research.

Roger Daltrey

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

Vijay Singh

If I don't like someone, I'll let that person know. I'm not very diplomatic. I understand that.

Jerramy Stevens

He has been on some championship teams, so he knows when it's coming. He is able to dip out of that pretty slick.

Arturo Gonzalez

In my view, this is the end of the political process. The only way these kids will get a diploma now is if a judge orders an injunction.

Nicholas Hoult

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

Kurtis Blow

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

John Hay

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

Bobbi Brown

After I brush on my moisturizer, I'll dip the same brush into foundation and mix it with the lotion to make tinted moisturizer.

Herbie Hancock

Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz.

Erik Solheim

The big risk are spoilers who want to produce violence to undermine this positive effort. At the moment the parties should do their utmost to stop violence, but they should not let violent elements and spoilers derail the process.

Bob Wise

There will be set modifications and different graphic elements from what we do.

Dennis Quaid

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

William Cullen Bryant

To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.

David Spade

Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

Albert Ellis

Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.

Albert Camus

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

Annie Besant

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Kieran Crowley

Our skill level let us down big time. The harder we tried the worse it got.

John Benjamin Hickey

After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

Miikka Kiprusoff

After seeing him play, it's kinda hard to take him seriously anymore.

Terrell Everett

Once we got down, it was hard to play catch-up. They did everything right.

Dan Penick

Actually, he told me if I work hard I could come in and start right away.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.

Stephanie Davis

The more kids report bullying, the more that is a deterrent. The more young people feel safe, that promotes better learning. It's hard to learn if you don't feel safe.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Lea Stokes

The state doesn't know the answer. I know people don't want to hear that, but we just don't know.

B. F. Skinner

The thing I learned most from New York was to compete. I didn't want to hear anything, and I knew if I won then nobody could talk to trash to me. If I win then I'm in control.

Author unknown

Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

English 20th Century Proverbs

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Dan Castellaneta

Quiet you kids. If I hear one more word, Bart doesn't get to watch cartoons, and Lisa doesn't get to go to college.

Joe DeSantis

Reality is always good. Kids want to hear it?s new. They know the floor?s going to be nice, the locker rooms are going to be nice. That helps.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Eddie Palmieri

Same, just the same. Nine pieces ---- a trumpet, two trombones, reed, congas, drums, piano and vocalist. That's what a Latin jazz orchestra should be.

Jane Asher

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Norman Granz

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

Fats Waller

So easy, when you know how.

Greg Ginn

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

Renaud Vabres

Jazz in New Orleans - that's what the world loves.

Herbie Mann

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Charlie Parker

You've got to learn your instrument.

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

George William Russell

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Austin Carlile

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

David Gower

As they say the sun shines on the righteous.

Reese Witherspoon

awful... I was sure they were going to have LeAnn Rimes sing my part.

Jane Hirshfield

The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Bob Dylan

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

Bruce Willis

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

Richard Tucker

To sing it right, Franco, you have to be Jewish.

Marsha Sharp

Every single trip down the floor, we're going to take a look at LaToya first and see if we can find her.

Tim Hudson

There's more than one way to do things. There's always different points of views and styles of pitching.

Lyle Thomas

Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else?

Heather Dougherty

If someone wants to play catch-up fast, that's the way to go.

Ivan Rodriguez

He's the manager. If he wants me to DH, I'll DH.

Irving Layton

My neighbour/ doesn't want to be loved/ as much as/ he wants to be envied.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Adam Sohn

He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.

Tim Danson

He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.

Tim Howard

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,