Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haz Iwendi

The police moved in, shot at the (kidnappers') vehicle. They killed the driver of the vehicle but the kidnappers dropped the dead body and went away.

Greg Wilkinson

The pilot was able to eject from the jet, but we were actually able to locate his body about 300 yards away from the crash site. Unfortunately he did not survive.

Mallory Factor

The PCAOB is an unaccountable, unconstitutional regulatory body. It's the poster child for the dangers of a runaway bureaucracy.

Bonnie Tyler

Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Did you ever think that your body is holy? You are a child of God. Your body is His creation.

Antoni Tapies

The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

William Hazlitt

The accomplishments of the body are obvious and clear to all: those of the mind are recondite and doubtful, and therefore grudgingly acknowledged, or held up as the sport of prejudice, spite, and folly.

E. B. White

We have a new source to get our hands on DNA originating inside the body.

O. Singh

We need to have one body to monitor and with whom we can directly deal instead of going to different departments.

Ian Watson

Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

Marcus Buckingham

My career expertise is as a psychometrician - somebody who builds tests to measure personality. Companies would employ me to build interviews to measure the talents of people before they were hired.

Carol Browner

We're very, very concerned right now here at the EPA when you are getting this level of heat in the summer months -- we're driving our cars, we're running our power plants -- more pollution builds up.

Jayne Anne Phillips

I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.

Source Unknown

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

David Wilmot

White laborers known for their enterprise, their diligence, their economy, which builds up new empires in the West.

Dustin Lanz

I think just knowing we've been in those situations before helped. You could tell they weren't stressing, and they put in the extra effort. This is something that builds a lot more confidence.

Orison Swett Marden

It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.

Garry Hynes

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wendell Mayes

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Virginia Postrel

By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Michael McLachlan

The policy language is specific and clear, and the jury verdict says that. I feel sorry for these people, I really do. This is a case we should have settled a long time ago.

Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Norman Ornstein

The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising),

John Danforth

The path is clear for us to get this case to a jury.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

Scott Stossel

I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain some comfort from my story and for those who don't suffer from anxiety disorders gain some understanding.

Denis Diderot

Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Frank Furedi

Gluttons no longer gorge themselves; they are simply suffering from one of a variety of eating disorders

Jane Green

Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.

Mao Zedong

There is great disorder under heaven...the situation is excellent.

Laura Wilkinson

There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.

Carre Otis

What has worked for me is therapy in conjunction with nutritionist who specializes in eating disorders that I see every two weeks.

Kathryn Prescott

The reason most people get eating disorders is because they want to be skinny, but they do it stupidly, and they stop eating completely - nobody knows anything about nutrition or exercise. I think it should be a separate subject in school.

J. J. Johnson

Patients with pain and mobility disorders won't have to travel to multiple clinics for their care.

Chuck Zito

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Daniel Kahneman

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

Bill Vaughan

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

Shirley Egner

That win (at Oshkosh) was huge. It couldn't have helped with our preparation any better. We were able to gain some momentum and confidence. We're welcoming the challenge.

Peter Cardillo

We've made some nice gains for the year, and now we're consolidating near the highs,

Yitzhak Rabin

We have to pass one year in our relationship with the United States by walking on tiptoes. If we pass successfully the year 1975 and we will reach 1976, we will gain not one year but two.

Gary Mickelson

We're still trying to gain a better understanding of what happened.

David Tucker

You can be 90 years old and you'd still gain muscle mass.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Jose Diaz

The police are not very nice in Mexico. And you learn that growing up.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Brooke Smith

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

C. S. Lewis

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

C. S. Lewis

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Bronson Pinchot

I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.

Pamela Anderson

I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

Alex Levine

We put a trainer with them, in their head and in the gym that they already work out in.

Brian Giorgis

We'll make sure she's in shape for it. We're going to work on ball-handling drills, and we'll get her in the gym shooting as many shots as possible.

Seth Numrich

I have never been able to hold onto a really strict gym regime because I get bored.

Carrie Burggraf

Gymnastics is not a sport that most people do. It is unique but it helps a lot in other sports with strength, coordination and balance.

Craig Vigil

We talked about stepping up our play. We wanted to make sure we left this gym with a win.

Eric Burnett

He was in the gym shooting yesterday, and he can knock those down. He's got it in him.

Denise Marshall

I also collaborated with the Heart Health Institute because I can provide the personal training and they can provide the gym membership.

Bill Hader

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Benoit Mandelbrot

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.

Tom Leighton

That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel,

Sebastian Horsley

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

Manoj Bhargava

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

Billy Collins

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

Roger Enrico

Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides,

John Tortorella

We're tired of the 25-per-cent rule. We need an occasional goddamn save.

Steve Forbes

You can't do it with an occasional speech, you've got to do it every day.

Jeffrey Hunter

It was more rugged than I had anticipated. It's beautiful. Sort of a frontier. The most you hear, other than the birds, are occasional planes passing overhead.

Max Lucado

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

Mary Hunter Austin

Death by starvation is slow.

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Gin Wigmore

I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.

Mitchell Kertzman

We have been the subject of their threats and intimidation,

Joe Solmonese

I don't think it has anything to do with the subject matter.

Alan Simpson

Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Rabih Alameddine

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

Chris Rainier

I am a storyteller who uses a camera.