Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Alaina Huffman

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

Walter Rodgers

This is a terribly closely contested election in a very tough campaign.

Michelle Grabner

The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not by design, organized around power structures. Because I am someone who thrives on delineating context, seeing up close the inner workings of the museum was not wasted on me.

Andrew Strauss

The way the series has gone it's a great possibility it might be a very close game,

E. O. Wilson

This game was big for us. If we had lost this, we'd have a very close league race on our hands. Everybody just played their hearts out.

Leslie Stephen

This game was about as evenly played as you could get. These close games are the kinds that are fun to coach. We were fortunate to come out on top.

Hamish Brewer

This deal is as close to a perfect match as you can get for an acquisition of this size.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Jeff Lacy

Sometimes you need a loss to win. I think it could be a good learning experience for me. Joe is a great champion. I shot for the No. 1 guy in the division. Maybe someday we can do it again.

Joe Kasper

This is going to be my last year. I hope to get a little experience in the field.

Jane Hirshfield

My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.

Jeff Goldstein

Which was the extent of our restaurant experience when we opened the first Sticky Fingers.

Bergen Evans

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

Walter Mosley

For some people, racism has faded in the background. But not for him. It's still there even when he doesn't experience it. It's become a metaphysical experience in his life.

Bob Metz

First we need a safety net from the farm bill. It would be a safety net that we would not use every year.

David Carter

If anything should go on the historic register, this farm should. It was a showplace.

Kirk Lewis

I was from a farming town. That (background) gave me a lot of the values that I have today.

John Goodman

We work hard, ... But, it does make farming more enjoyable.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Vicente Fox

On that side and this side there is organized crime. On that side and this side there is drug consumption.

John Bunting

You get off to a poor start in the third quarter and things start rolling the other way. It starts snowballing a little bit.

Isabelle Eberhardt

We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Charles R. Swindoll

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Andrea Dworkin

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Ana Castillo

It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.

Aeschylus

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.