Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Nelson

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Jane Austen

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

Demetri Martin

If you happen to catch on fire during the show, do not panic or wave your arms around or scream or we wil give something to panic and wave you arms around and scream about.

Bobby Scott

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Jack Jones

With humidity as low as this, you don't watch the fire creep, you just have to get out of its way, because it is moving quickly.

Dick Francis

How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch.

Anne Sexton

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins....

Ann Richards

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

Simone Elkeles

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

Brendan Shanahan

Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.

Edgar Allan Poe

Invisible things are the only realities.

Tina Yothers

They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.

Stephen King

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Mason Cooley

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

Michael Copps

Maybe a better way to put it on this Halloween Day is to say, 'It's not a trick or much of a treat, but it's all you get if you come knocking on the Commission's door today.

Martha Plimpton

During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.

Jay Leno

Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Lea Stokes

The state doesn't know the answer. I know people don't want to hear that, but we just don't know.

Author unknown

Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Sylvia Rhue

I sent out an olive branch. I didn't hear from them.

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

Benito Mussolini

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

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.

Steve Spurrier

What we know about them is they had a tough, struggling year last year, but that year is history.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Dr. Trucco

This is the first time that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

bell hooks

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

Richard G. Scott

Knowledge carefully recorded is knowledge available in time of need. Spiritually sensitive information should be kept in a sacred place that communicates to the Lord how you treasure it. This practice enhances the likelihood of receiving further light.

Brent Weeks

Light cannot be chained.

Brent Weeks

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

Billy Collins

But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.

Barry Goldwater

We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L.B.J." should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.

Antonio Machado

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

Antonio Porchia

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Chad Greenway

Don't put this on the refs. They played better than us. That's what should be written in the papers.

Chris Masoner

We wanted this one going home. We played them well.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Andy Cerroni

Tonight, Scotty played with a lot of confidence. He was out there tonight. We didn't take him out. He's so strong with the ball.

Corey Brewer

We're very excited, especially after the way we played at their place. Now we get them in the O Dome. It's payback.

Russ Halverson

We scared them. I don't think anybody's played them like that in league, especially in that first half. I think if we had any kind of depth, it's a different second half.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Pat Robertson

a vote (on the Supreme Court) that reflects his point of view.

Greg Beals

At times, we've pressed to the point where it's tough. When you're not winning, it makes it even tougher to have fun.

Wayne Fischer

At some point in time you must ask, 'how much is enough?

Chris Horner

At some point in the future, there may be a market, but it's not like that's anything we've really factored into our planning.

Ray Giacoletti

Offensively, I'd say he's more of a point guard. Defensively, I'd say he's better off guarding a two.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled, ... The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Erik Hanson

The strong point of our team is defense.

Jon Brion

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

Craig Swartout

The most quiet 20 points I've ever seen.

Ralph Murphy

We want to make sure they (companies) have a place to come.

John Thomas

By this afternoon, I'm sure there will be some emergencies.

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Richie Sexson

I was wondering why, when he left, he kind of got the boos. I wasn't really sure of why exactly,

Tom Costello

I'm not sure where we're going to go from here,

Bob Shoop

I'm not sure what to make of them.

Bob Brenly

I'm pretty sure Tony has already been ejected from this ballgame,

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Frank Permuy

You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Brian Cashman

There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That's why it's pricey.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Laetitia Casta

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

Logan Mankins

You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.

J. K. Rowling

But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting before. . . . Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him. . . . If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back. . . . That he really was . . .