Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Cole

Rather than blindly insisting there is zero error in fingerprint matching, we should acknowledge the obvious, study the errors openly and find constructive ways to prevent faulty evidence from being used to convict innocent people.

Mariah Carey

When you love someone so deeply they become your life, it's easy to succumb overwhelming fears inside. Blindly I imagined I could keep you under a glass. Now I understand to hold you I must open my hand and watch you rise.

Matthew Miller

Those tax cuts were directed largely to those who needed them the least. New Jersey wants a senator who will stand up to George Bush instead of blindly following him as he plunges the nation further into record debt.

Walter Parkes

The one thing you can take out of an experience like ('The Island') is, hopefully, some wisdom, ... We've talked about it conceptually, the decision to make the movie, how we cast the movie, how we've marketed the movie. There are things to learn on all fronts. But there's not just a formula that works every time. We will learn things from it, but we might go blindly into something similar in the future.

Wu Bangguo

We may introduce useful regulation from western laws and should never blindly copy them.

Ezra Taft Benson

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.

Hannah Kent

I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.

Glass Lewis

The Disney board has been notoriously insular, famously gullible and blindly loyal to Mr. Eisner.

Do Won Chang

I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.

Don Ward

We are all truly directing. We all feel deeply part of it and are making a great collaborative effort. Each one of us respects the other's place.

James Lecesne

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

Jemima Khan

Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.

June Carter

They were just people who were deeply in love with each other and couldn't be together at first. He was married. She was married. It took a long time, but they were finally able to be together.

David Simmons

This is a family matter. It's obviously deeply personal.

Peter Lord

For example, Wallace is a deeply flawed character,

Doug Wright

There were times when I would finish writing a sequence and I would see the face of my very well-mannered, deeply Presbyterian mother staring back at me from my imagination, looking at me with her lips pursed like, 'Douglas, what do you think you're doing?' ... But if you're tackling a figure like Sade, you have a moral obligation to be true to his spirit.

Sophie Okonedo

The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.

Jason Richardson

This is the result of an extremely personal matter. I deeply regret being involved in any situation that results in the embarrassment of my family, friends and fans, the Golden State Warriors and the NBA,

Alan Greenspan

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

David Rockefeller

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

Jack Shea

The percentages are low, no question, ... The work is leaving the workers. This outsourcing is a problem for union and non-union workers. Labor's never had it easy but we're ready to fight for workers' rights.

Louis Orr

We started the game with stops and conversions, and we started the second half with stops and conversions. ? We knew we had to make it tough for them to score. We had to stay in their faces all night. No easy baskets.

Frank Robinson

We struggled through it, and nothing ever comes easy for us.

Lee Byung-hun

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated.

Charlie Fink

When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.

Rebecca Murrell

We have a standoff of witnesses. It's never easy to tell who's telling the truth.

Norman Reedus

I had fears going into television that it might become boring to me, and I always like to be challenged, push myself. You do a film, and you know where you're going; you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

Jim Benson

There were some fears it was being pulled off the shelves and this is not the case. There is a shortfall, but it is not just at the VA. All pharmacies are experiencing it.

Tim Heekin

It's a quiet day before Easter, and we're waiting for the bunny. You have people not wanting to make moves before a three day weekend, and you have some fears about terrorism -- with Rice speaking, and because this is a religious holiday.

Lon Anderson

There seems to be a good supply of gas. The governor's office sent out a release that there is a one-and-a-half to two-week supply of gas on hand in Virginia, so there is no reason for fears about a shortage of gas or gas lines.

Edil Baisalov

It was feeding instability and insecurity. There were these fears that after March 25 the mob would run the country.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else

George Glynos

Oil prices tend to fuel inflationary fears, and as they fuel these fears funds so investors tend to look for an inflation head. In this situation they have looked towards gold as that inflationary head. As oil prices have gone up we have seen an increase in metal prices.

Lynn Reaser

Oil prices are still very high, but much more moderate than the worst fears of last week.

Joni Mitchell

Tears and fears and feeling proud to say 'I love you' right out loud.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Alan Watts

Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

Dwane Casey

We always hold out hope. Mathematically we're still in it. Every time we walk out on the floor, we're playing for something and we're playing for improvement.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Kevin Towers

We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.

Ertharin Cousin

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

James Blake

Wow ... that would be something. I?d think we?d need to hold a big party at Fairfield High. It would be huge.

Mark Rodgers

We're still sitting tight to see how this is going to break. We're kind of in a holding pattern.

David Briggs

We're still in that pattern. Everyone is on hold and waiting for the next (quarterly results) pre-announcement season in September.

Anne Bacon

We're still holding out hope and praying for their release.

Christopher McQuarrie

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

T. J. Miller

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

Elinor Howard

I've always imagined having roses at my wedding. It's just the way I've pictured it.

Susana Martinez

Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.

Guillermo Canas

Twelve months ago I could not have imagined sitting here and and being in the top 30,

D.J. Shockley

There's no way I ever could have imagined something like this in my head. It's too big.

Stephen Hawking

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Jenn Lyon

My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.

Charlie Williams

He was very well-respected as a major league ump, but I always imagined it had to be tough for a young African-American to work his way through the minor leagues in the '70s,' Reed said.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Dickens

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you...

Charles Dickens

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Charles Dickens

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

Krystyna Phillips

We actually get more people out here by appointment than during our open hours.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Ertharin Cousin

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

Susan Beal

Whether that other theater will remain open is yet to be seen.

John Winn

We're going to take that into account, ... with open arms.

Tony Padilla

We're going to see if we can open things up with Tiger throwing the ball.

Lynn King

We're going to open a playable field, but we've got more work to do.

Dee Brown

When we come out and he plays aggressive, that opens it up for other players. When he plays like that, the sky's the limit.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Audrey Tautou

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Charlie Kaufman

Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.

Alan Rickman

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Benh Zeitlin

I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

Audrey Hepburn

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

Arthur Rimbaud

Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy!

Aaron Tveit

I watch a lot of television. I always have.

Charlie Daniels

You'd better watch where you go, and remember where you've been

Chetan Bhagat

Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.

Chaim Potok

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

Billy West

I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.