Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

Will Blalock

I'm going to keep hope alive during these next couple games that something turns. Losing three in a row, going to Oklahoma, is not what I envisioned early on.

Nick Parry

The first two innings were very quiet, but when the top of the order came back around the girls just came alive and started and started crushing the ball. They got into a rhythm.

Michael Farr

The financial sector really hasn't come alive and gotten to levels much higher than they were a year ago. I think Wells Fargo is very well positioned. It's a cheap stock. It is diversified and they haven't been plagued by Argentina to the degree others have.

Neal Shusterman

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

Neal Shusterman

I imagine the center of the Earth must be a crowded place by now, but perhaps it is the spirits of those of us residing there that keep the Earth alive and green.

Morley Safer

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.

Jose Saramago

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

Kevin Brockmeier

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

Toby Hall

If this organization is so cheap they gave him $5.8 million contract, didn't they? All I know is, you look at a lot of these veteran guys in the league, I don't think they ever said that about the Rays.

I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like, "Hey, when are you going to pay me that $100 you owe me?" or "Do you have that $50 you borrowed?" Man, quit being so cheap!

Jules Verne

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.

Len G. Murray

Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues.

Emily Berrington

I did a geography degree, and if you told me whilst I was ignoring my geography degree revision in order to watch another episode of '24' that one day I wouldn't need that geography degree and I'd actually be in '24,' I'd have been quite pleased, I think.

Russell Jones

We were seeing, touching and hearing the degree of human suffering being experienced by children, adolescents and adults. I think there were moments when we all felt overwhelmed.

John Walsh

Houstonians want to help, ... Obviously, if you have vacant units and you want to rent them, there's a financial incentive.

Kathleen Smith

It's important to have a product that investors like. That is a real positive they have going for them. Their financial statements also look good.

Cindy Mydland

It's a big price tag and it's a big financial commitment.

Marvin Parvez

As the winter comes in, the situation has gotten more grim.

David Pearson

Some have gotten very angry, however, ... That's the reality.

Andre Ward

My mind-set has gotten a little more serious. I've always respected the game, but now this is my living. The hardest part is being away from my family.

Michael Vick

Just because he's my brother, that doesn't give him the right to step on another player's leg during a game. It doesn't give him the right to get into some of the other situations he's gotten himself into.

Denise Bishop

I think he went to the same area. They said, 'We think you've already gotten assistance' (and) he took off.

Ted Ligety

I think I've gotten to the point where I shouldn't be having to talk about Bode.

Bobby Johnson

He can do other stuff that he hasn't been doing, ... He can play tight end. We haven't gotten into some of the stuff we want him to do.

Jeff Emerson

Gov. Riley is the only governor to open up these records to the public. The office had gotten a little behind, but now the records are up to date.

Meredith Lazarus

For the past three years, we've gotten to the championship game. We want to win another one before we leave.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Cheng Chin

At the moment, I don't see how this can be done at much higher temperatures.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Dwight Nelson

People who worked in the mills or in logging often have a big loss in their higher frequencies.

Daniel Radcliffe

People would have been disappointed had it not got an M-rating, or not a higher rating than it had got in the past,

Matthew Maguire

One thing it highlights, again, is the wrong-headedness of the notion that higher state taxes and increased state spending somehow keep property taxes down.

Robert Hartwig

On one side will be people who want to rebuild quickly and inexpensively, and on the other will be those who say, 'We need to do something different. We need to build all these homes up higher and make them more resistant to wind,

Alan Gayle

I am surprised we did not see higher demand.

Susan Ferguson

More rural states tend to have higher fatalities.

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.

Miles Shipside

The market has picked up quickly this year. Properties are selling more quickly and stock levels are declining.

Yumei Wang

It's not strong enough to withstand even really low levels of shaking.

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.

Charles Simic

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

Edwin Louis Cole

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.

Danah Boyd

For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

Danah Boyd

LinkedIn is very good for browsing relationships and hooking into your contacts' networks. It re-connected me with high-level execs I hadn't talked to for some time, who then helped me close various deals.

Raymond Neidl

We need to see how quick traffic levels come back.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Doris Lessing

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

Doris Lessing

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

Donna Summer

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.