Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Henson

We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether.

Bill Doyle

The memorial itself has been an afterthought. It's astounding to me that the only thing they have up there after four years are a couple of posters.

Vint Cerf

It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.

Yale Hirsch

We've always had periods when something came in vogue, ... This is different because of the Internet. It keeps on going and the riches just keep astounding everybody. All the traders that come up today naturally gravitate toward Internet stocks.

Grant M. Bright

You REAP what You SOW: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

Lori Cooper

There are new technologies currently under development that are astounding there is always room for this category to grow. One of the big challenges when you deal with proprietary performance fabrics is to ensure that the costs involved with developing and producing the fabrics does not make the garments cost prohibitive to the consumer at the end of the day. We are careful to be sensitive to that for the benefit of our customer and we also understand which benefits our customer values as well.

James Horner

When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.

Brian Greene

As the astounding vastness of the universe becomes obscured, there is a throwback to a vision of a universe that essentially amounts to earth, or one's country, or state or city. Perspective becomes myopic.

Simon Callow

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Nancy Pelosi

I would not want any president - Democrat or Republican - to have the expanded power the administration is claiming in this case.

Justin Gatlin

I think it really stakes the claim that I'm the champion, ... I run like a champion. I show up big when it's time to show up big.

Todd Berry

I think I probably wasn't as strong as I thought I was, but I never claimed I could do an hour and a half, because I just knew I couldn't.

Ed Comeau

He can score with his stick in any position at any time and there's probably only a couple players who can lay claim to that statement.

David Chadd

He claims it's the fried food over here.

William Wilkinson

He continues to issue press releases claiming that the court has already ruled that Mr. Noe committed a fraud. That's false.

Chester Gillis

He knows very well the kind of claims he makes have political implications. He intends for them to have political implications. He wants to influence public policy in numerous places in the world and hopefully sway the powers that be to his side, especially on so-called social issues.

Rabindranath Tagore

God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience.

Robby Hirst

I think the one from this year will be claimed by my wife.

Tim Henman

I think I said I would put on a skirt if I dropped serve again.

Pat Mastelotto

Here's the exact date: The day I got word we were dropped by the label was on Monday 25th September 1990, a year later than I remembered!

John Bridgeland

We've gone in and talked face to face with kids who have dropped out of school. What they're telling us debunks popular assumptions. The problem is solvable.

Lynne Agee

We've dropped four and it's going to be hard to keep our heads up and think that we can win another one.

Nate McMillan

I thought those were the shots that we dropped our heads. That's the first thing I said in the locker room, that those were two big threes.

Cameron Edens

I didn't want to go if we couldn't go as a team. Plus I had been missing a lot of school and if I had missed any more, they could have dropped me from some classes, and I didn't want that to happen.

Matthew Caws

If 'Popular' hadn't had any success, I think Elektra would have dropped us right after the first record.

Ken Hitchcock

I just think our level of intensity dropped and Toronto's went up, and that was the difference,

Michael Rose

I?m living proof that toxic gas was not dropped on us that day. Nobody showed any signs of exposure to toxic gas.

Plaxico Burress

Just let Eli be Eli and he's going to be OK, ... Stop putting so much pressure on him and just let E be E. I've got a lot of faith in him. He's the quarterback of this team.

Mikhail Bakunin

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Atharva Veda

Have faith in Him; He will never give you up; He will guard and guide you until victory is won.

Sathya Baba

Have faith in God and in the correctness of moral living. Then, you can have peace and joy, whatever may be the fare that fortune offers you.

Debra Roberts

God's got your back when you give Him your heart

Rick Bowers

He's just got ultimate faith in his shot. When he needs it, he can get it.

Eric Bass

It is a leap of faith for all of us,

Chris Byrd

To fight three times in three years is crazy. It has been disappointing to the point of sometimes you get frustrated and really just want to retire. I have been to that point, but God is faithful and I just keep plugging along. I just have to remain patient and fights will happen, but it has been disappointing.

Walter Scott

To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Mike Williams

Kids need good instructors. You can't just have parents do it.

Susan Linn

Kids know that school is supposed to be good for them. So they think whatever a school endorses is also good for them.

Bernie Bickerstaff

That was ludicrous that he wasn't in that game. If you see Raymond play, there's no way he shouldn't have been on that team.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Dave Duncan

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Todd Bodine

To get a pole for us is phenomenal. We usually set up for long run. We don't even do qualifying runs in practice.

Jon McMullen

You can put poles up all day long. Thieves are ingenious, and it's unfortunate.

Charisma Carpenter

On 'Buffy' I wasn't all that high on the totem pole as far as responsibility and screen time.

Brant Sponberg

That's really the long pole in the tent.

Massimo Moratti

I wouldn't say that we are in pole position but we are in position.

Brian Tyler

Starting 16th is like starting from the pole for me,

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Mary Jordan

They wanted to see them. And when you say no, we can't let you in, we've reached capacity, that's heartbreaking and that's what it was.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you think if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement?

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.