Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cecelia Ahern

Holly smiled weakly. Gerry would know exactly how she was feeling, he would know exactly what to say and he would know exactly what to do. He would give her one of his famous hugs and all her problems would melt away. She grabbed a pillow from her bed and hugged it tight. She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone. And the depressing thing was that she couldn't imagine ever embracing anyone the same way again.

Bill Hicks

That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies...and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama.

Derrick Mason

We can't keep making mistakes, we can't keep playing like this. It's demoralizing to lose, even worse to have your starting quarterback get hurt. That's depressing in itself. We're going to stick together, and get better.

B. B. King

The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.

Craig Kilborn

I would do that and watch him, and it's depressing 'cause he is that good,

M. Wolfe

We've been waiting a year for some sign of a turnaround in IT spending, and we haven't seen it. Any kind of reinforcement of that message tends to have a depressing effect on tech stocks.

Michel Gauthier

What is depressing is the failure to act, the indifference, and the negligence of the federal government for everything that touches our seaway,

David Alan Grier

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

David Sedaris

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.

Yann Martel

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Victoria Osteen

God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Bill Vaughan

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Pete Harpolis

That was in 2002, and to date, we haven't had any failures since we proof tested this cable.

Zhang Yadong

We could learn more lessons from the losses than from the victory. We had enough failures in the past,

Rick Perry

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Richard Russo

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

Maude Adams

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Tim Pawlenty

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

Doug Elmendorf

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Ethan Harris

Usually the federal government takes a much more limited role in natural disasters.

William Millar

It is fitting that the TTI study on traffic congestion is being released the same day that the federal surface transportation program known as TEA 21 expires.

Bob Johannessen

We are obligated under federal law to return that money. That is what we did.

Andrei Kostin

We are now working with the Federal Property Ministry, Finance Ministry, and the government apparatus. I think our proposals will be ready in April.

Grover Norquist

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.

Ric Williamson

We followed the rules and regulations of the federal government. The process that has been followed in the last year was as open and as transparent as the law and the regulations permit.

Bill Rogers

We have a very good shield law in South Carolina, but we don't have a federal one.

Gary Hart

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Robert Jennings

(They) will look to see if there was any kind of negligence on anybody's part.

Kevin Rudd

If he has any self respect he would resign over this matter. The negligence is so gross.

Peter Capaldi

I think it's always exciting when 'Doctor Who' touches its past.

Mike Gibson

We didn't get him touches then because of what they were doing (on defence) and what we were doing up front. It's just how it happened.