Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Owens

Presence is an important tool. There's no question that people understand now that we don't have officers out there 24 hours a day. If they knew we were out there are at 3, 4, 5 in the morning, I believe that would have an impact.

Darby Hector

School is really a big part of my life. I really believe in the things we do.

Jonathan Kozol

Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national resources. All these kids are being educated to be Americans, not citizens of Minneapolis or San Francisco.

Allen Iverson

Saying something won't mean anything. We're gonna have to do it. I can't tell you anything that's gonna make you feel like we can turn it around. All I can do is believe in that and realize we're still alive. We still have a chance to make it into another season, and that's the most important part of all of it.

Eric Ries

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

Rose Tremain

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

Saleh Saaf

The search is still continuing in Jakarta ... We believe that he is still in Jakarta, and (there has been) no indication that he is out of Jakarta or the country.

Ewan McGregor

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.

Al Fernandez

I've taught children as young as 5 years old. Believe me they are easier to teach than these (let's say older guys).

Billy Blanks

What I'm teaching as an exercise instructor, my goal is to be able to take all the love off myself to help someone else.

Luke Wilson

I'm a little older and fatter now, and I'm not exercising as much. My lifestyle these days involves a lot of beer and pasta. But there's something satisfying in letting your body go to hell. So maybe I won't get offered the same kind of role as before. So what? I'm happy to play the guy in his mid-30s who may be a little unhealthy. Fat and arrogant is what I'm bringing to the script.

Michael Crichton

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Michael Crichton

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

Michel de Montaigne

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Michel de Montaigne

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.

Michael Sandel

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.

Michael Sandel

Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.

John Leddy

Make sure you exercise more than once a week. Make sure you're active, even when you're not playing basketball.

Charles Buchwalter

I'm not going to tell you that the online experience is matching the TV experience ... however, the online experience today is so much more like the TV experience than it was three or four years ago,

Alex Winter

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, 'cause that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

Rodney Davis

This is a unique experience. People are looking for that. Everything is so cookie-cutter these days.

Jose Vasquez

This is like a once-in-a-lifetime experience doing this ruler stuff. And it's something that we're probably not going to forget.

Megan Jones

Nothing like that happens here in Utah. It was a great experience and one I don't think we could ever top.

Karl Kiefer

Again, it's the experience factor. He didn't play tailback last year, so it takes time.

Rob Kittrell

It's been a learning experience for us. Our players learned a lot and we learned a lot as coaches.

Becky Edwards

It?s great to play a top team early. The young players gain experience and we see what we have to work on as a team.

Melanie Griffith

It's scary. It's just different, you know? I really love it, and the more time that goes by, the more fun it is and the more I understand it. You can't know it until you actually experience it.

Kathy Christie

No matter how good your intentions are, you still have to find the money. That's what states are struggling with.

M. Thompson

No matter how good the show is, a 2-inch screen is still not same as big screen TV.

Chrissie Fit

Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry.

Matt Mullenweg

Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.

Lorraine Bracco

So that's been very good for us, the long hiatuses.

Pat Jones

Soquel did a good job of double- and triple-teaming her when she got the ball. They played to win.

Christopher Howell

Some were good plays on his behalf. We have to make those plays.

Delia Smith

So often much of the flavour and nutrients in vegetables are near the skin, and with a good peeler you really are only removing the skin.

Raul Rodriguez

So now we're back to square one. Hopefully we'll come out next week and have another good race. But it's not over 'til it's over.

John Caudwell

At the end of the day, if you've got the great idea, and someone judges you've got the managerial capability, you'll probably get the backing for it.

Jim O'Heir

'Community' is a great show. I love 'Raising Hope' with Martha Plimpton. And I love 'The Middle' - another Chicagoan in there is Neil Flynn, who used to play the janitor in 'Scrubs.'

Didier Drogba

Didier, it's done!' he shouted. That made me smile and since then Michael has seemed happy with everything like a kid. He is great to have around the place, he's thirsty for knowledge and he's a great player as well.

John Feehery

did a great job ... in stopping the perpetrator.

Rich Brooks

Disappointment is a mild term. This is devastating for him because he played such a great game. He has been playing better than he ever has, and this is a big disappointment, for him and for our defense.

Mel Karmazin

Dick has been a great leader and he's done a terrific job, and I'm sorry to see him leave, ... Do I think the NYSE would be better run without Dick? No. Do I think the NYSE would be better if I wasn't on the board? No. But if people didn't want me on the board, I'd be very happy not to be on the board.

Travis Whitaker

Dirk does such a great job at preparing his team. We knew they were going to come out with a lot of fire.

Lou Duva

Corpus Christi has had so many great fighters, but they have never really been honored accordingly.

Kathy Duva

Corpus Christi has had so many great fighters, but they have never really been honored accordingly,

Saxby Chambliss

The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Colin Hanks

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

Marc Andreessen

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.

Bristol Palin

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

Alexander McCall Smith

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

Alex Kingston

I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.

Debi Mazar

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

Debi Mazar

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

E. L. Konigsburg

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

E. M. Forster

Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

David Friedman

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

Jim Foglesong

I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.

Jerry Hunt

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Lapo Elkann

I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

Rabindranath Tagore

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Lara Pulver

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Henry David Thoreau

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Ron Rivera

It's football. It's kind of the nature of the game, the nature of the beast, and we'll find out.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

Leonardo da Vinci

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Peter Bondra

To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Chris Martin

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.