Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Johnson

As for going on the show, I would not have minded one bit to meet him face to face and look him in the eye, ... But I feel the deck is stacked on that one and the show is Dr. Phil, not Jerry Springer. The title is ?Falsely Accused,? not?Guilty as Sin.?

Rand Paul

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

Marc Levesque

Real exports are poised to take a bite out of Canada's growth performance for the first quarter as a whole.

Mark Jensen

probably until mid-October or maybe a little bit later, depending on the frost. When the frost comes, it kind of ruins the market for us.

Aaron Rowand

Probably not, but we'll take any bit we can.

Olli Jokinen

Probably it's going to taste a little bit bitter in the next few days. You win the bronze, you win the gold, you lose the silver. As a hockey player you always want to win. It's disappointment right now.

Zhou Xiaochuan

Probably it could be a little bit faster but it is not the way of Chinese reformers to do things.

Dominik Hasek

Probably, I'm a little bit excited and nervous. It's not just another pre-season game, it's the first one in this building for me

Chris Browning

probably counted on their number three to create a little bit more havoc. We weren't worried with Samara on that side of the field. That was a nice comfort zone for us.

Jools Oliver

People pick up on some bits of the book in particular, like the bit about Jamie's sperm,

Ken Park

The World Almanac' tells about the world. Maybe the little bits are trivia, in and of themselves, but the more you know about that, the more you know about the world.

Ellen Klages

My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.

Tom Wilkinson

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Jenson Button

DR was definitely the front man but we needed a guy that was there 24-7 for the team and not doing other bits and pieces as well. Nick is doing a fantastic job, for me everyone is a lot closer. There is definitely a good spirit.

Joanna Lumley

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

Bette Midler

I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.

David Leslie

Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.

Joe Wilson

You have several intelligence services so that you take several different looks at bits of information.

James Anderson

Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't matter what heat you're bowling in - you just keep going.

Jeetan Patel

Obviously it's a dream to play test cricket. I can hope. If I keep bowling well then I don't see why not. I've just got to keep pushing towards it.

Robert Hoffman

some kind of lit sculpture. I think he mentioned bowling balls.

David Harrison

It's an injury that I picked up from bowling a lot in indoor nets and, though I tried it out in nets on Tuesday, it's not right.

Kathy Davis

It's a great cause and the bowling pins are just beautiful.

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

Chris Bell

Someone shouts food fight; food starts flying; management comes and tells us to get out or we're calling the police.

John Marshall

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

Craig Smith

is like the mad cow calling the herd rabid.

Mary Berry

They already feel mistreated. By calling them refugees, I think, makes them feel less American.

Noam Chomsky

The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Brian Kalinowski

We're taking desktop applications to a whole new level.

Dan Campbell

With Live Soccer Odds Desktop Alert, punters can now react to live soccer odds as they are published and monitor their favorite team using the integrated alerting tools.

Jonathan Hykawy

Very strong on the revenue side, less strong ... on the gross margin side. But given the yields they're getting in their desktop products, and presumably in their mobile products as well ... my model would suggest that their gross margins are going to come in higher than their guidance.

Jenny Nimmo

I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.

Norm Miller

Most people listen to a small radio on their desk or in their car. They're not really listening for super quality sound.

Kathy Hall

One of the things that we probably do different than most motels is that our front desk does the laundry.

Jeannie Long

I think every girl on the planet has done that. You can go look at my desk -- Jeannie Ad-Rock, Jeannie Schwimmer.

Bill Ward

I said, 'Hey, why don't you drop them off at the fuel desk and someone will pick them up in a few minutes.' And he did,

Larry Sanders

Some of those guys will work the desk now.

Edward Lear

And who so happy,- O who, / As the Duck and the Kangaroo?

Clint Hurdle

I still envision that duck swimming on the pond,

Maeve Binchy

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

David Martin

Let's get our ducks in a row before we start shooting.

Jack Dempsey

Honey, I just forgot to duck.

Mitch Hedberg

There are six ducks out here, and they all want Sun Chips!

Richard Russo

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

Si Robertson

Christianity is why the 'Duck Dynasty' family is still together.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister? Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

J. Taylor

Once we got over the first-playoff game jitters we got into our flow. That run to end the first half let us play our game.

Nate Hammond

Once we got into the game we actually played pretty well and made it close. But we couldn't quite hold it together.

Michael Redd

Once we got in (overtime), we knew we were going to win this game. We could not lose this game. It was a game that we needed very bad.

Dominique Byrd

Once we get our little Trojan swagger in the game and we know we have the support of the other 63 guys that are traveling, when we rally around each other, we feel like nothing can stop us.

John Graham

Once the puck drops, it's like a switch goes on, you're ready to compete. It's not the ideal way you would like to prepare for a game but the competitive juices just turn on and you're ready to go.

Matt Kiefer

Once their offense gets rolling, the transition game gets going and they hit 3s and doing the little things, it just energizes them I think. You have to do as much as you can to try and stick with it.

Jim Aldrich

Once the game went to overtime, I really thought we were going to win. It didn't work out for us, but I'm really proud of our young men. They played to win tonight.

Jack Thompson

Once the game is released, it's too late.

Dwight Hetzell

I've been kicking around this idea for 12 years. It always seemed to be too expensive. I saw this space and said that this was it. I put everything into this.

Jerome Harrison

We really kicked their butts all the way 'til the end.

Tamar Kvaratskhelia

We're going there to play and kick their butts.

Dave Ramsey

Let some one else take the butt kicking on devaluation.

Tom Wopat

No, I kick Jim's (expletive). ... He's a terrific actor and wonderful singer, but I think that the musical stuff was maybe better served by me.

Steve Spurrier

Give them credit, they kicked our tails. No lead is safe for us.

Jim Grobe

If we had done what we need to do, we'd be kicking off.

Roger Tamraz

If they kicked me out the door, ... I would go through the window.

Christine Feehan

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.

Skylar Grey

I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.

Larry Moore

We just had to get into the passing lanes a little more and watch out for the threes.

Albert Einstein

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Jamie Dixon

Those are the things that separate him from the other guys, his passing and his touch. And he's willing to pay the price.

Thomas Gray

Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

Rumi

With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself.

Christina Rossetti

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

Sidney Crosby

I was trying to be him when I was 10 years old. So now, with passing him, it's pretty special.

J. M. Coetzee

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.

Rich Mullins

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

W. S. Gilbert

We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here.

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Frank Garcia

We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alfred Kazin

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....

Alexander Herzen

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Dodie Smith

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

Chuck Close

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.

Jan Chipchase

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Robert Orr

This is not some technical or arcane requirement.

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Ayn Rand

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ben Fountain

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

Burton Richter

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Carol Burnett

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

Janis Joplin

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games...

Bella Thorne

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Bill Hicks

I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

Charles Bukowski

American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.

Duane Chapman

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

Alistair Cooke

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

Angie Harmon

And, Bruce and I are pretty close as well. We're both from Texas and we both understand each other. When I'm having trouble with a scene, I'll just go over to him and be like, "I have no idea what's happening here. What are we doing?" He's just been such a wonderful sounding board and, obviously, he's a tremendously talented actor.

Davy Crockett

You can all go to Hell, I’m going to Texas!