Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Ron Marks

Anybody who says there's such a thing as 'actionable intelligence' has never seen intelligence. Almost never in my 23 years have I ever seen anything that said to me that at such and such a time and such and such a place such a thing was going to happen. It just doesn't happen that way.

Dick Leggitt

These conversations he said he had with me are total fiction. Almost everything he said will be refuted.

Jimmy Ruff

The system has an automatic eye and it makes adjustments almost instantaneously. This means we can get the photo registered much faster.

Josef Duben

The swan was found near the same location as previous cases, so protection measures will be almost unchanged.

Kathy Dais

The sophomores have matured very well and I'm counting on them a lot to really step up and almost take the lead and get some things done this year. Katie has great potential to win tournaments and Denise practiced a lot over the summer and she came back really good. I think she's ready to break out.

David Deutsch

The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics.

Jimi Mistry

The thing with Ramu, my character, is he wants to come to America to succeed. He almost exploits a perception of society that they see, a perception of him and what he knows and what he can offer.

Sandy Alomar

The thing about Carlos is that he doesn't talk for the heck of talking. He expresses what he has to express at the right time. That's the true sign of a man, and that's how Delgado is, too. He and Beltran are almost the same person in that respect.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Leigh Steinberg

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Dave Blood

The boys on Pennsylvania Avenue have convinced a whole lot of the public that What's His Whiskers had something to do with 9/11. Stay tuned.

Nancy Reagan

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

E. B. White

A writer is like a bean plant, he has his little day, and then he gets stringy.

William Cullen Bryant

A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.

Don Rose

People are still engaged; they still want music, but they want a choice. So I say, just give the people what they want. It's so simple.

Jones Very

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

Caroline Levy

North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.

Jewel

Cynicism is for lightweights.

Jeremy Paxman

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

Sandra Bernhard

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

Bob Newhart

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

Newt Gingrich

There is a very big difference in where the two parties will take America, ... I sometimes get distressed by our friends in the media because they try to reduce everything to gossip, scandal-mongering and cynicism that I think is profoundly false for this country's future. There is an enormous difference in the two parties. We would go two very different places.

Rusty Petrea

Now my passion is different. Now my passion is guiding this fantastic thing known as the First Tee.

Dougray Scott

It was very hot, very rugged and quite inaccessible. But I had a fantastic time. The work is the thing that motivates me.

Richard Miller

It was an outstanding show. She's a great show person, and she did a superb job. There was really something for everybody. I looked around and could just see smiles on everyone's faces. It was a fantastic show and everyone had a really great evening.

Graeme Souness

I understand that on Monday, our final offer was rejected, so I think that one is finished, unfortunately. We have made a fantastic offer for the player and really, there is a limit on how much you can spend on one player.

Andy Ball

The women had a fantastic season and will do even better in 2006!

Ciaran Hinds

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

Gary Maurer

We're having some fantastic meals. They sure know how to cook.

Ted Sarandos

'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.

Bill Daly

Brendan was fantastic throughout the process, ... He always put the game first.

Thom Mayne

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Jackie Kennedy

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

Lee Miringoff

If he wants to stay in and he wants to have a candidacy and he wants to look like a fighter, then he plays the outsider strategy, which is what he's doing.

Joan Didion

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Nick Lewis

We went in a little too confident. We've got to realize it's tough to win on the road in any conference.

John Stocco

But you never realize really what it's like until you're actually out there in the spotlight,

Salvation Army

I didn't even realize that there is a possibility ... I would be very sad to see it go.

Dan Campbell

I didn't realize how young our team was, ... We're all pretty much on an even plane.

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

John Magnie

We realized we really do better when when we're all together.

Courtney Lewis

We realized that we had to be the leaders.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Phil Klay

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Jane Smith

You have to know where to look, it just takes a little practice.

Paul Tagliabue

But it really doesn't matter. If it takes 2 1/2 (months), fine. If it takes 5 1/2 (months), that's fine, too.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.