Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Rick Dickson

A number of schools and athletic directors have stepped up and gone above and beyond more than anything I have experienced. We will never be able to express the amount of appreciation we have.

Don Jr.

Any day above ground is a good one.

William Wordsworth

And that unless above himself he canErect himself, how poor a thing is man.

Atharva Veda

Anybody taking the above resolutions will naturally make efforts to fulfill them.

Martin Charnin

Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Ellen Burstyn

It was about this school teacher who went to Jerusalem and started bleeding from the palms. It just didn't make an awful lot of sense to me.

Keeley Hawes

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

Bill Cheney

Even though it's improving, there's still an awful lot of people who dropped out of work force and are waiting to be pulled back in.

Terry Cornett

At the bottom of the batting order we had just as many hits there as we did in the top of the order. So that's a delight to have that happen. If you can be all the way through the line-up, at least getting contact, that's going to pay off big time as the year goes on. Everyone is going to get more sure of themselves. If you get seven and nine hitting that makes it awful tough. We had some good pokes today.

Stuart Pearce

We think it was a wise investment. He's still got an awful lot to learn but he was a real handful for them.

Kevin Harberts

We just kind of stumbled into it. We made a couple of things, and people liked them. And they're willing to pay an awful lot of money for some of the stuff, so we thinking maybe we can make more money at that!

Dan Montgomery

Is there apathy? At times, maybe. I think an awful lot of it comes down to priority of time, ... We're not talking about parents who don't care but parents who make a living so kids can have basic needs.

Butch Davis

We understand that Butch Davis inherited an awful football team with virtually no talent. However, why do you keep defending the man (and his talent evaluation skills) when he clearly had awful drafts for the Browns?

Anne Frank

It must be awful to feel you're not needed.

Karen Fullmer

Shortly before the clock strikes 12, everyone is invited onto the rink. We hand out noisemakers and at midnight, everyone yells, makes a lot of noise and we drop balloons onto the crowd. It's a lot of fun for everyone.

Fiona Apple

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

Brad Buckman

They had balloons in the rafters, ready to go down after they won. To see their fans after that loss, it was pretty amazing. Of course, Oklahoma did the same thing to us last year on senior night.

David McCullough

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Richard Hatch

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Kim Fields

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

Jonathan Winters

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

Marc Guggenheim

Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.

Kurt Busiek

That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.

Issa Rae

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Maggie Peterson

Don was a comic actor. He wasn't a wisecracking, loud sort of person always telling jokes - nor is Andy.

Kevin Kwan

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

Dick Gregory

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

Dave Attell

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes.

Ciaran Hinds

I'm not a comic person at all.

Jason David Frank

I'm a huge Marvel Comics fan, and I'm a huge 'Wolverine' fan, I like the 'X-Men' comic book.

Jeff Ross

I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it?

Jason Wiles

I think on 'Third Watch' that I was the comic relief on a lot of that. I mean, I definitely had dark moments, but people tended to think he was funny even if the character himself wasn't having a fun time.

Robert Crumb

If I didn't draw comics I was a worthless human being. It was tedious labor, so I worked fast to get it over with.

Terry J. Lundgren

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more.

Eduardo Galeano

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

Clay Shirky

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

Meg Wolitzer

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

So, the three qualities of a workplace that would develop people would be information sharing, investing in the training of the workforce, and giving employees the ability to use their training and information to make decisions.

Maryann Jakubczyk

We need $200,000 roughly in donations. We will soon be putting information on our Web site as to what we need.

Mel Netzhammer

I think information is good. Getting information to the students is important.

Hans Blix

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

James Gleick

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Mother Maribel

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Al Lang

It was unacceptable play on our part. When we get down there, we have to score six points instead of three.

James Garner

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

Mike Morse

I've been through a lot worse. I need to get at-bats, play every day, instead of being up there just sitting around. I look at it in a positive way. I need to show them I belong.

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

Andy Warhol

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Jay Campos

We want to find out where we're at in the regular season, instead of waiting for the playoffs.

Bob Brennan

You have to use your mind instead of gears.

Ellen G. White

Christ was treated as we deserve that we may be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share. He suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which was His. 'By His stripes we are healed.

Isaac Wyler

All of the equipment's gone. They stripped it completely.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?