Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Rogers

I was looking at the stats (from 2004). And there were an awful lot of kills we're going to need to get elsewhere now.

Teju Cole

I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out.

Richard Aboulafia

Keeping costs down and getting close to the customer makes an awful lot of sense when the revenue environment is flattening.

Spencer Abraham

Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.

Joe Evans

I think it's awful that because of a personal conflict, Mr. Spinks thinks it's necessary to do something that may have the effect of disrupting the whole festival and the whole county loses.

David Kennedy

It could be false, but an awful lot of it gels. Unless the guy's been much more surreptitious than these guys usually are, it's probable that law enforcement is on his trail.

Joseph J. Lhota

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

Dave Wannstedt

I think what you saw out there today is really no different than what you saw in the preseason. He breaks an awful lot of tackles and the guy has an awful lot of desire.

James Corden

I went through a stage of wearing quite lairy trainers. I had all these trainers in gold or pink or silver. I look at them now in the cupboard - what was I thinking? Such an awful idea.

John Grisham

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

Andy Roddick

I was down in blackjack, now I'm up 600 bucks so I'm pretty excited about that. My dealer was Alfie, and he was being good to me the other night.

Jana Killen

I thought we gave up too many lay-ups and didn't protect the bucket very well. On a positive note, we fought back to get back in the game and had a chance to win.

Greg Nossaman

I thought our guys left it out on the floor. I'm very proud of the way they played. A bucket here or a bucket there and we're still playing.

Kevin Johnson

I went from being a guy who owned one house and a pool company. A thousand bucks was a lot of money. Now, I own all of these properties. I still look back and say, 'How did all of that happen?' I'm just a regular guy who ended up with all of these holdings. What is strange is it is working out.

Jack Anderson

He's playing like an animal. He's capable of scoring a bucket any time he wants. He's a tremendous athlete. It's a huge help - a confidence builder - knowing he's there whenever we need him.

Arthur Hamlin

Henry Dyer went to the Rams and got either a five or 10 thousand dollar signing bonus. Buck was drafted by the Texans and go a new car.

Raymond Chandler

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Sam Walter Foss

Just drop your bucket where you are.

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Scott Clavenna

In general, to have a whole solution like that from a single vendor is really valuable.

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Keith Ashdown

You can't single him out. It is standard procedure.

Caroline Knapp

Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

Ted Dexter

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

Simon Doonan

Her style is gorgeous, provocative and ever so slightly deranged.

Rasheed Wallace

I don't have the slightest (idea), but they better come up with something.

John Dingell

He has not made even the slightest inquiry,

Ciaran Hinds

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

Robert Hernandez

I haven't the slightest idea who he is.

Kurt Vonnegut

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

Stephen Potter

Yes, but not in the South', with slight adjustments, will do for any arguments about any place, if not about any person.

Suki Waterhouse

I've always loved slightly ugly shoes. Or even very ugly shoes.

Saina Nehwal

I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

Mykelti Williamson

Tim Olyphant is a machine. He never stops thinking and being creative.

Darren Sanderlin

It was beautiful. We just made stops when it counted.

Robert South

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Craig Craft

We just couldn't get any stops in the end.

Ben Wallace

We've got to get back to making stops when we need them.