Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Morrow

A special treat is to go out to meet new schools and children and with them welcome the new citizens of Canada. Let's always celebrate this country of ours, this beautiful country.

Frank Robinson

That was a beautiful debut. That kid will be all right.

James Bell

Ray left a legacy of beautiful places where he worked over 40 years. People all around the Pacific Basin benefited immensely from his designs.

Wes Craven

Rachel was one of the early names that came up. As soon as we started thinking about her, we really got excited. She has a quality that is missing in a lot of American girls now. You know, just a sense of wholesomeness. And I had seen her movies and I thought they showed such range. At one moment, she's doing 'Mean Girls,' which is sort of high-level comedy, in a way, and then she's doing this really beautiful love story.

Christy Austin

Prom is an exciting time for teenagers. The perfect dress is any dress that they feel beautiful and confident wearing.

Kathy Wilson

Progress has not happened as quickly as Senator Marcellino would have wanted, but a great deal has been done. The plan is eight years old. Maybe it has to be revisited. Today, with the open space and the beautiful vista the question is - what does the community want. The original plan was conceptual.

Alexander Yakovlev

Probably because many people do not want it to work fast. The spiritual matrix of the people is predominantly tuned to beautiful lies rather than the bitter truth.

Stuart Wall

Our thing is that we want extremely beautiful new faces and see how far they'll go to do things.

Lana Stanley

Our temporary space on First Street is actually a beautiful location, and we are happy to be here. We look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones as well.

Dexter Fletcher

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

Craig Venter

As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.

Stephane Deo

The big rise in future living standards is clearly linked to tax cuts.

Randy Cunneyworth

At times we're five individuals out there trying to do things. There were opportunities (against Peoria) where we clearly could have shot the puck but we wanted to try a prettier play or a prettier pass.

Richard Jefferies

A woman can see a woman so clearly - faluts, excellences, details - all are so clear to her.

Scott Anderson

As long as the (sewer) system was leaking that amount, it violated the Montana Water Quality Act. Clearly the leakage was an illegal discharge.

Nancy Kress

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

Cass Sunstein

People who know him in Washington, D.C., of various ideological stripes, say this is not the type to be a fundamentalist. He is clearly extremely able, and his opinions are real lawyers' opinions.

Doug Steenland

Our third-quarter results clearly demonstrate the need for Northwest to restructure expeditiously.

Steve Cohen

The Breeders' Cup is one of the most anticipated events of the year. From the track, to the jockey's room, to the paddock, we will offer unprecedented coverage of the Breeders' Cup with our team of horse racing experts.

John Rose

Radio will also be crucial. There will be 13 radio specials that will cover all formats.

Jeff Fager

People don't want to leave it. They want to stay, even though covering Katrina has been so difficult and painful in so many ways.

Steve Finley

Defensively, it's easier here. They pull the right fielder over to cover the gap, and it makes the field smaller.

Kevin Thomas

Cold.. Extremely cold.. Don't leave any unprotected skin.. You cover everything up.

Lawrence Wilkerson

The secretary of defense under cover of the vice president's office,

Dan Hill

The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

Porter Goss

the suspicion that maybe people are covering it up.

Deion Sanders

I've never been in a position where I blitzed on occasion, but now I can drop into coverage or blitz.

Ralf Rangnick

After a display like that we can not just go back to normal,

Mike Jones

It is a wonderful gift. All we've got to do is get the room to display a lot of this stuff.

Joe Davis

I would love to see it in the Hall of Fame, display it somewhere where everybody can see it, because it's about the ultimate memorabilia piece you could own.

Joe Mackey

He's got a lot of heart. That was on display tonight.

Bob Johnson

I can get a piece of fruit or a vegetable or produce or whatever and I can find various recipes for that particular item, and it can display that recipe, print it out, take it home, use that recipe, and we're integrating that with the locator system to show where all the ingredients are within the store for that recipe.

Phil Jones

It's just a wonderful display of how well she was liked.

Vikram Seth

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

Granger Whitelaw

The race will be an hour-and-a-half-firework display in the sky.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

False modesty is better than none.

Mason Cooley

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

Jean Cocteau

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

George Herbert

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

John Adams

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Jules Renard

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Simone Weil

Necessity is God's veil.

Rumi

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

Martin Luther

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

C. S. Lewis

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

Francis Thompson

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.

Alexander Smith

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!