Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

We wish Pedro nothing but the best going forward both on the field and off the field, ... He pitched with every ounce of his being for the Red Sox over the course of 216 games. Some of those performances were among the most memorable in Red Sox history. Who will ever forget the 1999 All-Star game? He has earned everything that he has accomplished, including his World Series ring and his reputation as one of the greatest who ever lived.

Margaret Beckett

The public utilities and the public services are among the people who have done the most preparatory work.

Wolfgang Bernhard

We are delighted to be supporting an important event such as the World Youth Day, ... The young people coming together in Cologne are our future. The message of tolerance, optimism and understanding among nations they are sending all over the world comes from Germany this year, in many ways a valuable sign in itself.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.

Martha Stewart

Many of the candidates were as accomplished or more so than I when I started to build my business. Even so, there are some explosive personalities among the candidates and they really create a lot of tension in the conference room.

Bobby Darin

So let us build them shelves where They might fight among themselves and leave the people be who want to sing

Robert Rainy

Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.

Bhagavad Gita

I am silence among the secrets, and the Self-knowledge of the knowledgeable.

Ralph Rivera

Casino games such as blackjack and poker have become wildly popular among mainstream audiences and that trend is reflected on AOL Games.

Jason Clarke

I was a designer at the University of Louisville taking classes (in the early 1990s) and working there and the Web happened. I was interested enough (in the Internet) to pursue it and learn about it. It was at a time that there was no education about Web design and Web development.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:""Mankind."" Basically, it's made up of two separate words - ""mank"" and ""ind.""What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

Mark Peterson

We got down and maybe pressed a little bit. It kind of snowballed from there.

Dick Vermeil

We'll wait until tomorrow. Maybe he'll end up being just like Tony Richardson.

Martin Henderson

When you're doing a one-man play, you maybe rehearse for a month, and then you're just doing it an hour or two a night.

Brian Aldridge

We had more opportunities. Maybe it could have been like 63-55.

Justin Kirk

I think my favorite movie is 'Joe Versus the Volcano' - or maybe 'Multiple Maniacs' by John Waters.

George Smith

I tell our players a lot about some of those guys. I don't know if they realize the tradition. Maybe if they see it in the paper, it will mean a lot more to them.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I tell myself, 'If I can wake up each day and be excited about what I'm doing, then I must be happy.' But then again, maybe I'm in denial.

Ozzie Guillen

I think he's ready to move on and be on the roster. I don't know if I'll play him or not. I'm not sure. Maybe I'll give him another day.

T. Harv Eker

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

Ho Chi Minh

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

Greg Abbott

Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers

John Dryden

Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

John Barth

He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator -- though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.

Jodie Foster

I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.

Jamie Langenbrunner

It's no secret we're a better team when we have the lead.

Michael Wright

It's the unknown secret in the youth sports field.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Hugh Prather

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Gore Vidal

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Jacques Diouf

In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need genetically modified organisms.

Jack White

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

Hanna Rosin

Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

Gloria Steinem

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.