Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Matthew Parry

Gold continues to rally on continued U.S. dollar weakness, a trend I expect to continue over the next week.

Navtej Sarna

India, as always, wishes the people and the Bhutan government continued peace and stability and fulfillment of their aspirations as they embark on a new constitutional system.

Rick DiPietro

I'm proud of the guys. We could've kind of tanked it after losing six and stuck our heads between our legs and said, 'This one is over.' But we continued to work hard.

Sadakazu Tanigaki

I hope to explain (to the U.S. officials) the Japanese government's continued efforts toward structural reform.

Dirk Nowitzki

Their zone was really effective, I thought, in the third quarter. They continued it in the fourth and we finally started making some. I got open a couple times and made some big shots.

Daniel Chan

The continued improvement in the local job market has underpinned the growth in retail sales. We expect growth will continue as interest rates peak in the second half of the year.

Janna Sampson

I'm glad to hear he's dropping it. Continued harassment of management would not have been good for keeping their focus on the business.

Michael Woolfolk

The hike in March is fully priced in. The hike in May is over 80% priced in. There is already talk of continued hikes after that. Interest rate differentials globally are increasingly favoring the U.S. and it's positive for the dollar.

Samantha Barks

I grew up on a tiny little island.

Sadako Ogata

I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

Jon M. Chu

I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.

Napoleon Hill

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

Orhan Pamuk

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

Jeff Greene

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

Nellie Bly

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

Nellie Bly

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

Matthew Fox

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

Torii Hunter

He was throwing gas. He was throwing 96, 97 miles an hour.

Tom Taylor

I pushed him a little through one of the miles to get him back on pace and the next mile he totally went out the back door,

John Stokes

Its probably 300 miles to the gallon, I guess,

Alan Culpepper

You don't want the race to go without you, but you know you have 22 miles to go. It's a balance.

Dennis Smith

The smoke could be seen from miles away.

Dr. Shannon

These are two very, very important milestones as we progress.

Jason Biggs

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?

Linda Doyle

Down here, there's not much. We live about 15 miles from anywhere.

Bill Sadler

Don't think of it as 60 miles a day.

Rick Masi

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Rich Mullins

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Umberto Eco

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

Saint Augustine

Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

William Butler Yeats

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

Keith Richard

Passing the vodka bottle. And playing the guitar.

Nick Saban

You can't get from A to Z by passing up B.

Paul Cezanne

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

Terry Pratchett

The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked.

Thomas a Kempis

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

Sgt. Reynolds

His statement was that it was a very small amount.

Ian Fleming

To come and see them live at a small track has appeal.

Kevin Jones

He doesn't play as small as he is.

Vincent Van Gogh

I'll start with small things.

Dale Maharidge

In a small town, there is a thin veil of anonymity,

Paula Deen

Their space was very small ... so it was a real challenge.

Mikhail Prokhorov

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

James Fenton

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.

William Maxwell

My wife has to tell me I haven't said anything all day. I've stopped talking, and I'm totally unaware of it.

Vijay Batra

We have stopped work on the footbridge after objections from Pakistani soldiers,

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

Jeff Smith

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.

Katie Gearlds

If we want to win the Big Ten title we have to win and that's pretty much what it comes down to. If we lose, we get second.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Josh Brown

I'm going to do something. There's a little tension between us.

Marat Safin

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

Marat Safin

Everything is possible in this life...

Wayne Quinlan

You think you know somebody, but you find out if you travel with them for ten days.

Macaulay Culkin

It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Carl Jung

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

Richard Hofstadter

We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.

Warren Buffett

I have got this letter which actually goes out the day after I die. It has already been written. And it says that: "Yesterday I died". And then it says: "That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you, the shareholders of Berkshire". And then I go on and explain what is going to happen. I know that is one time when they will be really interested in hearing from me.

Walter Winchell

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

Timothy Ghriskey

If you look at today, you've got to say yesterday was a sucker's rally.

Marcel Proust

My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.

Jose Saramago

Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.

Jorge Luis Borges

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

Jonathan Swift

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.