Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Natalie Clifford Barney

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Nora Roberts

I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

Nora Ephron

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Edward Hoagland

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

Fletcher Knebel

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Mark Twain

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Napoleon Hill

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Joe Rios

On one of the roadways, it appears they were exchanging gun fire and the victim suffered one round.

Peter Spina

Metal equities took a thrashing and it appears there may be more weakness in the short term here.

Ken Dunham

It actually appears to be a pretty good design.

Raymond Kelly

It appears to be a crime of passion,

Edward Winter

It appears the parts do match. We are doing further tests.

Tom Daschle

The new compromise appears to have the votes, so we will vote on it,

Martha Coakley

At this time, the motive -- if there is one -- appears to be financial,

Jennifer Black

That's a pretty sizeable reduction, and it appears to be working. So they knew that to be right, they had to be very, very right.

Pascual Gonzalez

The information that was brought forth to us is very, very distressing to us, It appears that they misrepresented the facts when they enrolled their children in the schools.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Howard Jacobs

We felt U.S.A.D.A. made the proper ruling. It seems to me the anti-doping rules are lacking any notion of common sense.

Herbie Hancock

We talked for a couple of hours before we played a note. We didn't talk about music, we talked about life - families, children, issues in the world, politics, so many things. The kind of camaraderie we developed helped make the music what it is. I wanted to find a common ground and connect as people first.

Urs Linsi

We want the referees to be a team and they should all be able to speak and write a common language.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

Author unknown

If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea... does that mean that one enjoys it?

Source Unknown

Reverence is one of the signs of strength, irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be fore sworn in the day of trial.

Uli Hoeness

Good team spirit is a fine thing to have and I'm someone who likes a harmonious atmosphere,

Joe Torre

He's still getting back to where he needs to be. He needs to feel good about his command, because Moose is more about finesse than power.

Janet Reno

and I trust her to do it. And so, what she said is fine by me.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Sigourney Weaver

I'm a natural golden retriever at heart. I'm fine with that now, but there was a time when I tried to keep myself from jumping up on people. I had to make myself sit.

Dave Bruns

We don't have any objections to managed care. If people want to join long-term managed-care plans, that's fine with us.

Ryan Russell

We need to stop worrying about our mistakes and have some fun. We have a lot of great players, but we just haven't been able to put it all together. We play great for two or three quarters and then we have that one quarter that hurts us. But we'll get it done. The guys on this team will find a way to make it happen. We have a good team. Our moral may be low right now, but we'll be fine once we get it going. We're not going to quit.

John Imlah

We get Justin (Hubbard) back tomorrow night. That will help the kids out, too. The kids played well in his absence. They did a fine job without him.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Author unknown

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.