Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Andrew House

Sony is one of the world's most recognized and best loved brands, so this is a very exciting opportunity. My challenge will be to enhance our brand further by taking advantage of all the assets across the organization globally, including both electronics and entertainment.

Pete Seeger

Songs wont save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Songs are sneaky things; they can slip across borders.

Jessica Williams

Sometimes you get down and you feel defeated, but we did not feel that way at all. We just kept fighting back, getting one run here and one run there. Finally, it was the seventh and we battled and pushed across the winning run.

Ben Jacobson

Sometimes, with teams from the power conferences, people look at what it says across the front of the jersey when it comes to getting rated.

Rodman Philbrick

Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all across America. Not because my novels for young readers are bestsellers - they're not by a long shot - but because today's kids love to write to authors.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Some would rather pull a handcart across the prairie than bring up the subject of faith and religion to their friends and co-workers. They worry about how they might be perceived or how it might harm their relationship. It doesn't need to be that way because we have a glad message to share, and we have a message of joy.

Herbert Lau

Telecom, techs and the Cheung Kong group are weakening but it looks like a sell-off across the board.

Cillian Murphy

Sometimes the darker stuff has greater potential for drama, it's always interesting to investigate things that you might come across in your own life.

George Dennison Prentice

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mike Blair

I'm pleased to have been given the opportunity to prove myself. I think I did that today.

David Elson

I just wish we could have had another one that would have given us points. If that would have happened, you never know what the outcome may have been.

Gregg Moskowitz

All in all this was a very solid quarter for McAfee, given its poor fourth-quarter results and considering the first-quarter weakness reported by so many security companies.

John Howell

This is just another step in an ongoing saga. It says I have given up trying to be a nice guy. I want him to pay me back. I have started playing hardball.

Ben Stein

Not one prayer or moment of silence for those who have given their lives.

Ricardo Sanchez

It's my understanding that people who have disabilities are going to be given high priority in terms of evacuation,

Jamie Kritzer

That is wonderful news given the proximity to some of the homes out there.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Albert Schweitzer

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Anne Sexton

I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.

Anne Sexton

For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.

Anne Sexton

Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.

Anne Sexton

We are all writing God's poem.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Nancy Pelosi

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

Mohammed Morsi

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

Niall Ferguson

The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.

Noam Chomsky

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Bobby Fischer

Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.

Dan Brown

Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.

Ambrose Bierce

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

Ann Romney

I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.

Ang Lee

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

Anatole France

The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.

Anne Graham Lotz

Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.

William Shakespeare

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

Richard Bach

Some religions believe that there's a hierarchy, that you don't have a connection, but you must go through the shaman or the priest or whoever the religious leader is. And that's what surprises me, that some people who find a huge value in these kinds of systems also seem to enjoy ILLUSIONS. I can't figure it out.