Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Rodney Lovell

See how few quietly step to the starting line. Listen to how many noisily step back from the starting line.

Mary Murray

Sadly, it's the space the museum occupies that's needed. We've had roughly 2,000 new personnel move onto Fort Richardson in the last few months, and the number is only increasing. Office space is at a premium; new construction just can't keep pace with the influx of new troops.

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Don Hill

Not working is a luxury, ... I feel fortunate to do the things I want to do.

Martin Brodeur

I've played enough in the NHL to know most of these guys. Most of the time I know their tendencies. I've been lucky. I've been fortunate to make some saves and help us win some games.

Jaycee Carroll

I've been very fortunate two years in a row. I couldn't be happier. ... The one thing I remember about last year's tournament, it was a little too short. I know everyone wants to come and compete.

Sean Connery

I've been very fortunate and have never had any real problems with people. But I've also had the guts to tell them, 'you're a bore'.

John Steinhilber

That's why we do conditioning. That helped us in the overtimes. It was an odd night, and we are fortunate to get a tough road win.

Herb Sendek

That's from a guy with a lot of experience. We were really fortunate he was able to come back. He was really ready to play tonight.

Al Bernstein

That's fortunate for the rest of us, because if it wasn't, Gil would have won it every year.

Erin Morgenstern

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Jose Canseco

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Mats Sundin

I've told Tomas already if you see me coming, move over.

Darius Hargrove

It was tough. But we've got to move on.

Jamie Friedman

The stock moved up pretty quickly, so we changed.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Melissa McBride

The only way to move forward is to be able to trust whomever you're with 100 percent.

John Bolton

We have a sense of urgency about this ... There is a need to move expeditiously.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Billy Crystal

Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures.

Donald Trump

Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.

Dean Martin

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

David Attenborough

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

Robert Barry

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

Stephen Wright

One time I went to a museum where all the work in the museum had been done by children. They had all the paintings up on refrigerators.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

Glenn Gould

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

Jean Baudrillard

Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Roebalin Bustamante

You see the standing water, this is the number one hole.

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

Jane Addams

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fools are without number.

Joe Wurzelbacher

The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America.

Edward Snowden

There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

John Shields

We have a parking problem in Nyack, particularly at night, ... We've come up with a number of ideas. One of them is to have valet parking village-wide.

John Shelton

Randy is qualified as a police officer for the state of Ohio, If he's called, he has got to go.

Al Franken

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

Jan Egeland

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

Charles Spurgeon

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

Dick Van Dyke

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

Edward Snowden

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Keith Ellis

Another officer walked in when this was occurring.

Kofi Annan

Washington will not put an American officer on the ground.

Clint Eastwood

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

Stewart Hall

You got a lot of people targeting 1.12. People are hopping onto the train.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Mike King

I can't get into specifics regarding personnel issues.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Alan Vega

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

Jane Siberry

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

Diane Ackerman

A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it.

Diane Sawyer

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

Denis Diderot

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

Deepak Chopra

Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.

Dirk Benedict

The space genre is timeless.

Albert Einstein

Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.

Albert Einstein

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.