Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

David Brinkley

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

Bear Grylls

Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.

Deb Caletti

Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it so enticingly that you wouldn't notice that it had things attached - heavy things, things like pity and need, that were weighty as anchors and iron beams and just as impossible to get out from underneath.

Tony Iorio

We've always partnered with the schools. They are the anchors of the community.

Mark Calvert

We're looking for this to be a world class destination resort. We have not made a decision yet as to which casino operator will be the best anchor for the overall project.

Jenny Potter

We've used some money to get a dog carrier for Beans and also a leash and collar with the Marine Corps eagle, globe and anchor emblem on them.

Zeke Grader

Year in, year out, salmon is the one that they depend upon. It's their anchor fishery.

William Falconer

The most ancient anchors are laid to have been of stone, and sometimes of wood, to which a great quantity of lead was usually fixed.

Louise Leakey

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Gary Owens

The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation.

Rig Veda

The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.

Reed Kroloff

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

Nick Park

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

Richard Geist

Whenever you get a traumatic event happening in society, you tend to see certain reactions to it, such as irritability, depression, confused thinking and sleep problems, ... In that context, rational decision-making becomes very difficult. People tend to begin to let their thought processes be guided by their anxieties.

Ai Sugiyama

Whenever we have the Olympics or the Fed Cup, our schedule becomes very tight and I couldn't play the last couple of years. Everything is fine with me this year.

Eric Goldstein

When folks find out the garbage is from New York, all of a sudden it becomes even more of a political issue.

Jason Calacanis

Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.

Rick Sandlin

We always have trouble finishing, and I think some of that is because ... when you get beyond seven- or eight- (deep) for us, our quality, talent ... drops off. You get tired.

Herb Vincent

The people who met today aren't the people who work out the nitty-gritty details to make things happen. LSU will obviously be reimbursed for expenses and would not suffer financial losses from this arrangement. Beyond that, not a lot of details have been settled. They will emerge in the days to come.

Mark Kiesel

We still think inflation will be contained. The reality is the economy is going to slow sharply over the next three to six months, and that should keep the Fed from hiking beyond May.

Matt Lawton

We started out by looking at profitability, but we found by talking with partners, they viewed their business performance in a number of dimensions that goes beyond simple net profits.

Nico Melendez

Why someone would leave $4,000 in their checked luggage is beyond me. Why don't they just take the $4,000 and leave it on the seat at Aloha Stadium during a football game and let somebody pick it up? Because that's essentially what they did.

Tom Rath

When you tell people at a convention that you're from New Hampshire, they tend to hold on to your hand a little longer and look into your eyes a little deeper, ... But beyond that, there was no overt, 'Are you with me if I go?'

Michael Dell

We're not going to provide any visibility beyond what we provided for the first quarter.

Patrick Hamon

We have seen a continued drop beyond Paris, but persistence near the capital. We cannot yet claim victory.

Dave Wiggins

We want our clients to feel pampered beyond expectations.

Robert Randall

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

Dave Minshall

We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.

Jim Smith

We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.

Michael Defensor

We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.

Jack Stahl

We accomplished a great deal in 2005, and we set the stage for a strong year in 2006. Our strategy to re-energize important franchises, while simultaneously developing new products, is working.

Charlie Dowd

We always have the deal that they can leave up until Opening Day. It's a little frustrating. But I'm used to it and the fact that we had Luther who was ready to close. ... He just steps right in and makes it a little more palatable.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. We're going into the Big Ten tournament and we want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to participate in this tournament understanding there won't be any sanctions they have to deal with. ... They can play without that stress.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Steve Perkins

We are proud to earn this award. It represents a great deal of hard work for us, for our suppliers and for their suppliers. We salute our team of exemplary employees and suppliers, and share this honor with them.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Robbie Earl

It's kind of a double-edged sword. In a way I didn't care, but it kind of hurts knowing the (numbers) you put up and not be respected that way.

Gary Giancola

They didn't outwork us, they didn't outplay us. That's what hurts so much.

Glen Mason

It really hurts. It hurts more than when you get killed.

Irwin Cotler

Do you know what hurts me? If you do not know what hurts me, then how can you love me?

Kevin Bardsley

That's why, when we hurt, I think he hurts too, because I think he always wanted us to be happy,

Drew Neitzel

You never want to lose to your rival. It hurts. But more importantly, it hurts in the Big Ten race. We're going to have to win out to have a chance.

Lindsay Bowen

We didn't want to go out this way. It hurts a lot right now.

Czech Proverb

Better a lie that soothes than a truth that hurts

Mike Getkin

This one hurts really bad. You can't take an out off, and you have to play all 21.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Abdullah Abdullah

We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul,

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

Chris Bell

When you're trying to move away from a system that is overburdened with loopholes, you don't replace it with a system with still more loopholes.

Alexander McCall Smith

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

Michael Novak

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

Harry Shum, Jr.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

Neil Meron

They tried to sell the movie by its story. All the TV spots and trailers were story-driven, because many people still think musicals don't have serious plots.

Mark Indelicato

I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.

Uzo Aduba

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

Gary Chryst

It's smart. A lot of people who don't like musicals like this one.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Martha Minnich

I've seen just about all one could see. It never get any easier, but it remains just as rewarding each time.

Barry Steinhardt

Is it a step forward? Yes. Is it foolproof? That remains to be proven.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Frank Hadden

As I have said before Nathan remains very much in my thoughts. He has not retired from international rugby.

Wayne Gretzky

This team seems to be more talented. Whether we win or not though remains to be seen.

Theodore Dreiser

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

Euripides

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

Michael Gartenberg

A lot of what we've seen in Vista has similarities with Tiger.

Pam Davis

It smells putrid. If I had come by myself and seen this, I probably wouldn't have stayed.

Dan Sumner

It's the trend we've seen for a long time.

Leo Beenhakker

(There will be) no new guys. We have seen everybody.

Michael Hearst

It's a different distribution than we've seen before.

Emily LaGrassa

It's a little unclear why he was released. They should have seen that he had a warrant.

Michael Kelley

This is what's coming, ... We haven't seen the worst of it yet.

William Carwile

This is unlike what we have seen before.

Ben Johnson

This is the worst thing I've ever seen in my career.

Charles Stross

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

Chris Carter

It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

Chris Christie

I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.

David Duchovny

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

David Brin

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up..

David Brin

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Barry Diller

We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

Arne Duncan

The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.

Arnold Palmer

If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

David LaChapelle

I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

Ben E. King

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

Drew Carey

I love Las Vegas. I like that Las Vegas has everything. Everything and anything you want to do, you can do in Las Vegas.

Rita Rudner

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

Vanessa Marcil

I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.

Sigourney Weaver

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

Michael Mina

Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.

Norm MacDonald

I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.

Noel Coward

Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

Brenda Johnson

It was surreal, just watching her. But this wasn't her first rodeo.

Felipe Alou

It would've been worse if I was watching the game, but I didn't see any of it.

Pete Carroll

The whole world is watching us. You never feel you can say enough about this stuff.

Kenneth Warren

The whole country's going to be watching this.

Viggo Mortensen

there he is, I'm watching him, there he goes.

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.