Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a ""crowned head,"" although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester:""If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester.""""The reason, Sire, that you would thrive,"" The fool said --""if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit."" --Oogum Bem

Paula Mitchell

Knowing that my mother's alive and how she fought her way out, that's helped me a lot, ... We've heard so much bad news all week, we needed some good news.

Bernie Williams

Joe is the kind of person that will not show his emotions. He probably could have been the greatest poker player alive if he had chosen to do that. He's the epitome of that phrase: 'Never let them see you sweat.

Bill Clinton

John had a dream of black people as successful and smart and beautiful and heroic, a vision of keeping hope alive by showing black people as faces of hope. He never gave up. He never gave in. He once said 'At the end of the day, we're all just trying to give people hope.' I liked John Johnson. I thought he was a strong and wise, straight forward and kind man.

Frank Wilson

I take pride in what we did for the community with our requests. We always wish we could do more, but any recognition is progress. My main hope is that whatever we accomplished with the park won't distract from the principles behind it. A park is just a place. We need to keep Dr. King's dream alive by continuing to recognize the diversity of the people who live in this area.

Mike Hanson

He is very lucky to be alive. We were told he was lucky to be alive and his face had severe trauma.

M. Wolfe

GW is out, so it's anybody's. That's what we want. We're trying to stay alive and get an NCAA bid.

Peter Carlisle

Her goal is to compete in at least three more Olympics. It makes sense to try to keep that partnership alive for as long as you can.

Mike Williamson

He's keeping us alive for stretches of games when we're not playing our best.

Douglas Love

Know the company you're buying from, ... I would opt for purchasing directly from a Hertz or Enterprise. But I'd be careful of vehicles that come from corporations. They can generate lots of mileage.

Kevin Ford

Kids like that are just a testament to putting their time in the right environment. I always tell them, if you buy into the system it'll pay off.

Tiffany Miller

Kids go by all the time to buy one. I don't think there is a kid that doesn't get one.

Gary Harris

I would think they would have to come down over time. How fast and how far depends on how much fear stays in the consumer marketplace. Panic buying spurs some of this.

Jon Brorson

I wouldn't be surprised if the market wakes up tomorrow and buys them (stocks) back again.

Dennis McAlpine

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see radio and outdoor come up for sale, and Mel using some of his money to buy them again, if for no other reason than to show he can make it work.

Patrick Kelly

I would say that I am doing less comfort purchases, like buying a CD. I am not doing that because I have to pay to get around.

George Iny

I would say overall it was a relatively stress free market. People were more on the level and the condition of the vehicles was better than buying in Toronto or Vancouver for sure.

Ferdinand Marcos

I would venture to say that if you want to buy dollars, they would be cheapest here because of the volume of remittances,

Anne Fortier

I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.

Robert Browning

I would think the extra pair of eyes, extra pair of ears would maybe deter someone who may have decided to try something.

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything going on in his teeth and his hand. To me, that is major surgery. I made up my mind after talking to him. I was inclined to get him when I went out there. I decided he had enough.

Randy Barnhill

Jack was getting after it. We decided to switch him around and move him up front (from the midfield), because he can score when he's got the ball.

E. Hicks

John has an important job here with the Rangers. I want him as part of our team as we move forward and I am glad he has decided to stay with our organization.

Mary Reynolds

I think it is really unfortunate that the New York University administration has decided to take a page out of the Yale administration's anti-union book, ... It's shocking that in 2000 the NYU administration decided to recognize the democratic decision of their students, and then at the whim of the president of the university, they can take away their contract, take away their grievance procedure.

Jim Crosbie

It all started with our defense. They decided to go out and get some stops.

Marty Schottenheimer

He wanted to finish, but I decided it was time to give Michael a few shots.

Von Hayes

He walked into my office yesterday after San Antonio's game and said his passion is elsewhere, so he decided to retire. We wish him well.

Ken Wachter

I would think it's the highest-profile event we've had. It's a big event.

Steve McKee

I wouldn't be surprised. It's still a great buy, the only event of its kind that captivates a large portion of the nation at one time.

Ron Ledbetter

James had the misfortune of facing the eventual runner-up in the first round. But I'm proud of what he accomplished this season.

Brent Newman

Jake is so versatile. He can swim a number of events for us.

Judy Davis

I would submit to you that, yes, these events did happen in operating rooms with other people in the room. Do you think that Mr. Aubin raised his hand and said, 'Look guys, look what I'm going to do now. I'm going to touch them'?

Courtney Smith

I would wear this out to an event or something, and I'd feel really cool.

Julie Chapman

Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.

John McKenna

I think it's a good thing to have homophobia week events out there for people who have strict viewpoints.

Greg Hand

I think it'll open up more opportunities for (non-UC events).

Jason Alderman

We looked at a whole host of demographics in cities.

Trevor Brooking

Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.

Gao Zhidan

In the Olympic history, the hosts seldom do well in shooting.

Jason Elam

If you have a championship mentality, then you have to go into hostile environments and win on the road. It's just the way it is.

Brent Petway

I knew it would be like that, a hostile environment, so I was ready for it. But it wasn't that bad.

Jorge Valdano

A host of negative results have come together in a short space of time,

Mark Levitt

The unified messaging market is being revived by the availability of hosting of unified message services. If you're not sure you need it, why not rent it on a hosted basis?

William Myers

The Net by its very nature is hostile to the traditional methods of governance,

John Halliday

It's got to be a site that's meaningful from an astrological point of view, but we don't want it to be in place that's so hostile that scientists and people won't go there,

Charles Pierce

I would say we have probably transformed ourselves from a small to a medium-sized institution.

Stephen Colbert

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians.

Jim Morris

I thought we should have won two out of three. We shot ourselves in the foot.

Pete Lewinski

We try to pride ourselves on defense. I'd like to think that had something to do with their turnovers.

Bill Cowher

We've been underdogs pretty much every week since we got into this thing. We don't take ourselves too seriously.

J. Taylor

We've got to stop shooting ourselves in the foot.

Jason Varitek

I think we just tried to do too much. We got ourselves out.

Jennifer Nettles

We many times sell ourselves short, not only in relationships but throughout our own lives. Hopefully, we come around at some point and realize our own value.

Yuri Andropov

peace for ourselves and for all the people of the planet.

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think it's time to see what the marketplace really wants, and perhaps we can better accommodate that,

Don Ameche

I never 'went Hollywood.' Perhaps some of my behavior was detrimental to my career, but I couldn't go the route of Hollywood parties.

Antonio Szabo

It has had a turn for the worse, perhaps the much worse. ... Now it's a different entity. It's not completely run like a business.

Jane Gardam

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

Joshua Hoyt

They wanted to use this as a wedge issue, perhaps for their presidential campaigns.

Paulo Coelho

Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Sean Sweeney

I was kind of thrown in there after running scout team most of the year, and I wasn't really prepared,

Douglass Young

I yelled to the others, 'Run to the back, run to the back.'

Udonis Haslem

J-Will is always running. We just have to run with him. Sometimes we just can't keep up. ... If we can run with him, he's going to find you.

Jay Jorgensen

keep the trains running smoothly and on time.

Robert Gilmore

It all starts with who we got running the country,

Chipper Jones

He was about as jacked up as anybody. He was in there saying get me a run so I can get a win.

Andy Reid

He can run, ... This doesn't stop him from running the football.

John Becker

He can run saying he's been a thorn in the party's side, which is true.

Marcus Banks

He just told me (before leaving), 'Just run the team, make stuff easy, and let's get this victory.

Chris Stewart

That's how it works, if it's catastrophic, it works off a sponsor agreement.

Keith Barnes

And they haven't been our sponsor for 10 years,

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Janet Fitch

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

David Small

I think it's a generational thing. It's time for a change.

James Hughes

I think it's about time we do something about it.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Larry Clark

I'd like to win one more title to make it an even dozen,

William Cowper

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Tracy Austin

I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.

Anita Frazier

I'm pessimistic, ... breakthrough and proprietary titles from a well-known franchise.

Henry Rollins

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

John C. Maxwell

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.

Marcia Gay Harden

The trophy wife must be in her 20s to earn the title 'trophy wife.'

Toussaint Tyler

It's different because this is my first year going out (of title contention) the first round.

Kay Redfield Jamison

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

Gary Payton

He didn't like the 19 (points) and 10 (rebounds, actually 7.8) he was getting (in the playoffs). This year we'll get him back to 26 and 12 or 13, and we'll be fine.

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Todd Genke

We're pretty much getting on his back. We told him going into the year that he's going to be our guy.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

William Wilberforce

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

Two Chainz

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you've made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.