Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Massey

The other stores don't seem to be hit like they are -- there was an attempted break just a week ago, ... I'm not sure if what they sell is more attractive.

Neal Hersh

We believe that Mr. Baldwin has severe emotional problems. Mr. Baldwin's lawyers attempted to cast terrible aspersions toward Kim rather than focusing on the main issue, which is his daughter.

Allen Stockberger

We approached it in a way that attempted to give the sheriff incentive to raise money. He doesn't like that approach.

Lana Tomlin

Until the end of the game I knew that we had attempted only one free throw shot all night. And I told the girls to quit being content with perimeter shots and drive to the basket. It'll get you to the foul line.

Yusuf Stanikzai

A suicide attacker attempted to enter the police station at 10:30 a.m. When police stopped him, he blew himself up and killed 13 people on the spot besides wounding 13 others.

Yusuf Stanikzai

A suicide attacker attempted to enter the police station at 10:30 a.m. (6:00 a.m. GMT). When police stopped him, he blew himself up and killed 13 people on the spot besides wounding 13 others.

Robert Sloan

All of us are stunned by these revelations of an attempted cover-up, ... The good news is that the cover-up didn't work.

Arne Ljungqvist

It's just as much a violation to be in possession of forbidden doping substances or to have attempted to use them or distributed them to others. All of those are doping violations of the same significance as a positive test.

Wolfgang Schaeuble

This attempted fraud must be punished more severely than as if it were simply another rules infraction.

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Charles Spurgeon

To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us.

Benh Zeitlin

Local casting is just something I love doing.

Lorraine Toussaint

I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.

Lisa Cholodenko

Great actors help. Every project is different. Sometimes it's completely open, and I've been able to cast who I've wanted. And then sometimes people want a certain kind of actor.

Lisa Cholodenko

Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.

Romola Garai

The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

Marc Cherry

There are certain storylines I shouldn't have done, there are certain actors I shouldn't have cast - guest stars, I mean.

Terri Bushman

We still won't have had the whole cast practice together up until three weeks before production.

Martin Freeman

I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.

Charles Stross

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

Alan Price

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

Alan Hovhaness

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

Akhil Sharma

To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.

Chris Chelios

I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.

Chris Colfer

Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things suck and then some days when things are great, but don't feel guilty because you're experiencing that. Don't feel guilty from being human.

Chip Conley

Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.

David Viscott

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

Audrey Tautou

I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one.

Steve Makein

We always feel good going into any match. We're focusing on individual match-ups and scoring as many points as we can.

Steve Ludlow

We're still focusing on who's going to emerge.

Haley Barbour

We've turned a corner. We're well into the cleanup phase now. We're focusing on the future for the state of Mississippi.

Jodi Hermanek

We'll be focusing on holding them to three runs or less, and our pitching has been strong enough to do that.

Sen Hooser

Working with my colleagues, we're focusing on making that a reality.

Matt Smith

We're focusing on what our program is going to be rather than what it was.

Scott Sandelin

We're focusing on Thursday and to hopefully play three games there. We're not satisfied just to get there.

Mark Groesbeck

We're focusing on preservation of capital. I'm telling them to be happy with modest returns.

Emily Cochran

We're focusing on ourselves -- our plays, not their plays.

Robbie Kaine

A lot of things can happen. Kim and Brent could really spark together and move the judges.

Tina Brown

I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna.

Theo Rossi

If you look at someone like Kim Coates, you realize that hes been in everything.

Michael Stipe

I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.

Ron Evans

Honestly, Megan Kim makes one error. It's a shame she's the reason we were in it the whole game.

Thomas Hubbard

that a lot of the language he was using about Kim and North Korea would be counterproductive to getting them back to six-party talks.

Kris Humphries

[Kim Kardashian] is one of the hardest-working women I've been around ever.

Mark Latham

Kim didn't talk to Greg, ring him, offer him support in any shape or form, ... I just find that unbelievable.

Dick Pound

I was disappointed that more members thought Kim would have been better than I would.

Jonathan Todd

Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.

Angela King

Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.

Tom Waits

and I have lawyers over there investigating my options.

Kent Schaffer

This is where we'll see what the lawyers really get paid to do.

Nick Powers

I've been told by my lawyers that I will not be made whole.

Judith Kilpatrick

Toward the 1890s, you start seeing more lawyers who are homegrown. Still, for many years, they couldn't get training in the South.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Mark Lanier

From Merck's victories, I've leaned that you must tie their lawyers to the truth. They specialize in mudslinging.

Chuck D.

On a number of occasions, he sliced people down. The tribe's lawyers were not able to shake my testimony.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

John Vane

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

David Heymann

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

Gretchen Rubin

I always feel calmer when I exercise. In fact, that's probably the main reason I exercise.

Jason Bruffy

Whenever we are not doing a show in our main theater or after the main show, we will do things down here.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Lennox Lewis

My main goal was to win all the belts, and I have done that.

Andy Wachowski

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Patrik Elias

Would we rather play a team with Jagr or without Jagr? Yeah. We'd rather play without Jagr.

Mike McLeod

It's a sad way to go out. In a way, you'd just rather get waxed. It's tough. Tough. Tough for all of us. We wanted this badly.

Gerhard Schroeder

It's not the 1950s but rather a return to the 19th century,

Andrew Gould

There will be no silver bullet. Rather it will be a combination of technologies.

Andrea Lewis

There is no where else I would rather be than at Howard University.

Maurice Flanagan

It is rather a slap in the face.

Veronica Corpuz

It's a different type of presentation rather than a full-blown musical. It requires totally different technical needs.

Mark Cuban

This is uncomfortable. You can go through 100 different scenarios you'd rather be in, but it is what it is.

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Alan Ball

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Elizabeth Kostova

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Elizabeth McGovern

I have a terrible sense of direction.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Simon Schama

A terrible vanity, really, but as you get older...

Jerry Jones

It's just a terrible loss. I'd like to have something to blame, but I don't.

Rhoda Katz

It?s a terrible tragedy. I have no words.

Marlon Byrd

It's a terrible loss. We had so many chances.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

John Gandy

As we got toward the end of the year, he was indicating some things he had to complete.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

David Dearborn

Essentially, we're all working toward the same goal.

Larry Davis

Everything has to go perfect. We're working toward that date. We'll see if we make it.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Tom Wilkinson

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.