Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert Gold

Sometimes he advertises himself assiduously, writing a few words and then rushing to the talk show to wave his flag.

Mark Twain

The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion

African-American Proverb

A good thing sells itself, a bad one advertises itself

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

Stu Walters

We struggle offensively. Defense is what keeps us around. Senior forward Evan Walker brings it every night defensively, he works his butt off. All our guys do.

Pasuya Yao

We are looking forward to a bottom-up dynamism that brings out what most people think of Taiwan.

Noemie Lenoir

I can't say modeling is a hard job. And it brings the money home.

Ian Collins

We have a special player in Andy. He always brings his best.

Jim Anderson

There is no question about it, Chris is a guy who brings a lot of potential to the table. With Chris, we're talking potential, because he's done it in college but he hasn't done it in this league yet.

Ken Ehrlich

There is no more perfect choice to host this year's Emmy show than Ellen. She brings her own distinct style and talent to everything she does.

Richard Rogers

Until now, we've been a group of buildings surrounded by parking lots, ... Now the garden brings all the buildings together and gives us a real presence and identity.

Michelle Williams

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it.

Charles Spurgeon

The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

Al Pacino

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

Chris Christie

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

Chogyam Trungpa

In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.

Chinua Achebe

He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

Chinua Achebe

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Chief Joseph

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

China Mieville

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Eddie Izzard

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

Wayne Modest

That's why it's called the leaf of life, and seen as an important symbol. It only needs water and it will stay alive.

Edmund Burke

Turn over a new leaf.

Pamela Anderson

Turn Over a New Leaf -- Try Vegetarian.

Miguel de Cervantes

I'll turn over a new leaf.

James Atlas

If I had to put my money on it, ... I'd say he's not going to read it. He might leaf through it. He's not going to sit down and read it.

James Boswell

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.

Justin Morneau

He's going to have to get a Maple Leaf tattoo to play on that team.

Skip McDonald

We just didn't want to leave any leaf unturned.

Alan Adams

In Toronto, the Maple Leaf emblem is as strong as the New York Yankees,

Coco Chanel

Modesty is the highest elegance

Anna Jameson

Modesty and chastity are twins

William Shakespeare

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

False modesty is better than none.

Tacitus

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Richard Steele

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Sebastian Faulks

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

John Milton

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

Maya Angelou

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

Steven Wright

The statue is permanently out of place in my house,

Dennis McCullough

We have a sneaking suspicion where it is." ()

J. Haldane

Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Alfred Jodl

To this very day, I do not know what he (Hitler) thought or knew or really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions.

Sonia Braga

The rating [of "Aquarius"] was eventually brought down to 16 after the third appeal. Everything blew up after the second appeal because the press picked it up and spurred suspicions of persecution.

Jewel

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

Henry David Thoreau

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Samuel Johnson

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.