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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

Walter Scott

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

David Moffett

It's up to the Dragons to have a good look at where they want to be in five or 10 years time,

John Green

...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

Cassandra Clare

Simon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?" "I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct.

Cassandra Clare

Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.

Ken Kesey

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...

Kerry King

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

Lily Cole

I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,' the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

George Fleming

Keep your references up to speed on your job search and its results. By communicating what's going on with you and your job search, you're using your references to the fullest capacity.

Hwang Suk

I take full responsibility for the papers and offer you my apology.

Joseph Smith

I take full responsibility for the crimes. . . . I knew I was wrong, but I couldn't stop.

Colin McRae

He was a great guy and full of laughs and great spirit,

Paul Cabana

Guys were joking saying Savy is back so now you'll be ready to go. I kind of laughed and said, 'Oh, you guys are full of it.' They were right.

Gerhard Richter

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

Bob Harman

There are so many issues and the system is full of holes. It's a mess. Every year the state tries to put a number on something that's nebulous and none of these numbers are ever accurate.

Kate Bush

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

Charles Kingsley

He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out.

Scott Pruett

He just dived on the inside and used me to stop.

Bruiser Flint

He's a big kid who can score inside and outside and can rebound the ball. He can post you up. That's the tough thing about him.

Randy Moore

I thought we executed in every aspect, inside and out. We had a total package and made this happen.

Wolfgang Nowak

I think that Merkel has solved the principal unsolvable problems inside her own party. The problem for her now is the Social Democrats.

Cassie Schrock

I was just looking to penetrate every time. My teammates kept looking for me inside and my shot was just falling.

Leon Powe

I was just having fun. We were here at Staples, so I wanted to come out hard. If I can get something going inside for my team, that sets them up on offense.

Lewis Witcher

I was kind of shocked they did that, but that's OK though. Let them come in. They're not going to get too much inside when I'm in there.

Ken Hitchcock

We maybe had three inside shots in the third period. We had kind of wild turnaround shots. We didn't have any presence with shots at the net. We were one shot at the net and gone.

Joel Klein

has been and always remains open to a settlement.

Tom Driscoll

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

Eric Wicks

I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they were just trying to make a play, anywhere.

Lorrie Miller

It is just as open to me as it is to them.

E. Hicks

I welcome them all with open arms. At least we can get through practice.

Robert Simmons

We made two acquisitions in 2005 and they were enabled in no small part by open source.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Pat Santoro

He has a tremendous feel for mat wrestling. He's used to wrestling a pretty open style.

Richelle Mead

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Wyclef Jean

He rules, he's real tough when it comes to business. I'm like a sponge right now. I know I can pick up things from him.

Mike Kuntz

Here, we had them on their heels, and we wanted to go for the jugular, but we didn't pick up a blitz.

Jay Haugland

He's deceivingly fast. When you watch him from the outside, sometimes he doesn't look that fast, but he can pick up speed in a hurry.

Mark Gottfried

I think the carryover is that the pickup games, when we're not present, are better, ... They're talking about principles defensively.

Susan Williams

We're pretty picky on those kind, and my first reaction was it was an error.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Ruth Miller

We're now role models, so if we see a piece of garbage, we'd better pick it up.

Mike Shanahan

When he's in there, there is a presence. He really picks up our team.

Meg Mallon

I don't even look at it as a proper score.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Rick Reed

He has made several airplanes essentially to scale and proper proportion.

Peter Simonson

If proper safeguards had been in place, these assaults may never have occurred.

David Chang

I really don't care for the proper chef coat.

C. S. Lewis

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Mark Gottlieb

The development rights of the ... property predate the ordinance.

Carlos Gutierrez

Theft of intellectual property is not tolerated and will not be tolerated.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

J. A. Konrath

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Martha Grimes

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Julian Barnes

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

Mark Millar

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Oliver North

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

Joseph J. Ellis

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

George MacDonald

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Patrick Freitas

He just stayed up every time. He had the respect of the gym.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Lenny Wilkens

I think that you have to communicate with people, and I think that respect is a two-way street.

Rebecca West

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

Richard Dawkins

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Robert Towne

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Sanford I. Weill

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

Walter Annenberg

Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude to spread. It becomes infectious and no one becomes safe from the ravages of prejudice.