Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

The thing that gets me the most was that there were so many good shots.

English 20th Century Proverbs

The rich man has his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the winter.

Tim Federle

You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school.

Teddy Pendergrass

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

Robert Hoffman

Each week gets tougher and tougher. But this was very big for me because I got pinned here last year (in the final), and it?s good to come back and win where you lost before.

Chris Spillane

Every time he steps onto the ice, he gets the job done. He doesn't get a lot of ice time, but every time he does, he does a super job.

Jim Walden

Well, I don't know what they do on the west side of the state, but over here whenever it gets dark, we just turn on our lights.

Jimmie Johnson

As the day wears on and gets into the evening, we'll try to hone in some new things and hopefully find some speed.

Romeo Crennel

As soon as that rumor gets out there and he reads it, he starts to wonder what's going on,

David Fields

a full-range of housing for all incomes and all people who wish to live in the neighborhood.

Judy Burkett

The statistics show that 30 percent of the housing inventory is spoken for, but that's not accurate. There's not that much inventory.

Bill Graham

Well then there would have to be housing for them to move to and we're looking at all possibilities but we obviously have to have a practical solution as well.

David Church

Lower-income housing has been a problem, and it's only getting worse.

Bereket Selassie

Housing is a huge retention issue for the military.

Gregory Gieber

Without question, the housing market has peaked out. However, I think it will be a modest decline.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Michael Evans

They're paying a lot lower and they can make their services for a lot lower.

Dudley North

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

Edwards Deming

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Al Knutson

We got into the 18s (minutes) and we should be in the lower 17s.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Joey Skaggs

You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.

Donald Trump

The best investments you ever make are investments in yourself - and your education. Those investments always pay big dividends.

Don Hewitt

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

Dick Gregory

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

Anne Lamott

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Richard Bach

It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.

Thomas Sowell

Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back.

Robert Menzies

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Wil S. Hylton

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Alan Dershowitz

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].

Janet Napolitano

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

Bela Lugosi

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.