Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon Gee

What has gratified me the most is the enthusiasm I have witnessed this week on campus and among our alumni and friends. No doubt that a winning team brings great credit to the university.

Neil Howard

Alumni Hall worked great, and he's trained real well and he's sharp. You get indecisive when you have another race that suits him 20 miles away. Of course, the Gold Cup is a great race so we're kind of on the fence right now, but we'll have a decision pretty soon.

John Lee

Alumni come out of the woodwork for this one.

Bruce Sherman

This center will greatly benefit students who will one day be alumni themselves.

Cael Sanderson

This is a chance to make a statement to the nation about where we stand as a program. We have young talent and successful alumni and this is a platform to get more experience.

David Gibson

This institution has been around since 1887. It will continue. The alumni is growing bigger and bigger. We'll rely on that as well as the student body to make sure that this university will continue.

David Gibson

This institution has been around since 1887, ... It will continue. The alumni is growing bigger and bigger. We'll rely on that as well as the student body to make sure that this university will continue.

Tony Pals

For a small institution like this to raise that large amount of money involving such a high percentage of its alumni is significant.

Wendy Kopp

It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.

Franz Beckenbauer

Unquestionably, it was also thanks to the World Cup win in 1974 that I was lucky enough to spend four years as a player in New York from 1977.

Lawrence Dallaglio

We started the (northern hemisphere) season by winning (November's World Cup final) in Australia, and we have to try and finish the season by winning in Australia,

Adrian Bevington

We have said that when the World Cup comes back to Europe it is something that we will give serious consideration to.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

Boris Said

Until this year, I only competed in three oval point races in the Cup series, ... Racing is all about experience and I am getting there. I have now raced in nine oval races in total -- that's not a lot, but I feel we have the resources to set a realistic goal of finishing in the top 20 this weekend.

Calamity Jane

I'd punch that cocksucker in the balls before I'd cup him for comfort.

Caitlin Moran

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

Diego Maradona

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

Juergen Michels

We'll see strong increases in consumption towards the end of the year because of the VAT effect. The World Cup will also play a role.

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

David Drake

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

David Duchovny

I don't make decisions based on money.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't be afraid of making decisions.

Barney Frank

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

Armstrong Williams

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

Bruce Brownlee

We've already started to put up the fence around the site.

Joy Stonier

A lot of people put signs on their fences on his last day.

Tony Campbell

This has been an on-going project for us to get the fence up for over a year. We finished the fence today.

Mike Cross

It picked them up and just stopped at the fence there and lifted back up.

Tom Nelson

A turtle doesn't get onto a fence post by itself -- it has a lot of help. I've had a lot of opportunities, and I'm still learning from them.

Duncan Hunter

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

Tom Mazur

An individual threw the suspicious package over the north fence line. He is in custody.

Mark Bradstock

A friend was standing by the fence and said that he was probably going too well. He didn't hit the fence, he just buckled because he had so much momentum.

Ra'anan Gissin

There would be no fence whatsoever if Palestinians fulfilled their obligation,

Charles Caleb Colton

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Alan Watts

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

Alan Greenspan

Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

Alan Greenspan

Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

Alan Greenspan

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

Alan Greenspan

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

China Mieville

Anything for gold and experience.

Eartha Kitt

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

Dean Cain

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Charles Dickens

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

Audrina Patridge

I love Halloween and dressing up. I usually have at least three costumes.

Dee Snider

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.

William Shakespeare

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

Alan Stern

It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons

Chanel Iman

I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.

Charles M. Schulz

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.

Bill Maher

Halloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we're someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning.

Kathy Lien

Euro/dollar longs and shorts are practically one-to-one right now, which indicates how indecisive the market is,

Mignon McLaughlin

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I am irrevocably committed to being permanently indecisive.

Lindsey Graham

The best deal that Barack Obama can get will not be the best deal to be had because he's weak and indecisive.

W. C. Fields

I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.

Steve White

We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.

Gary Chase

They (Framingham) are only three miles away. They aren't in our league, and we don't have to worry about running into them at all.

Alan Culpepper

You don't want the race to go without you, but you know you have 22 miles to go. It's a balance.

Tom Campbell

There was nobody else in the state who had to go 120 miles to play two sectional games. But that's the way it is.

Maurice Luque

They rescued about 240 people within a four-hour period of time within 5 square miles before they had to suspend operations at nightfall. There were about 500 people who still needed to be rescued.

Jim Haggerty

Back then I could run two miles in 13 minutes. Now I don't think I can run two miles.

Dennis Smith

The smoke could be seen from miles away.

Sarah Miller

I've been doing a lot more miles doing workouts twice a week.

Dr. Shannon

These are two very, very important milestones as we progress.

Chief Joseph

I know that my race must change.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

Edward Gibbon

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

Edward Gibbon

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

Eddie Marsan

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

David Ricardo

LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

David Icke

The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes.

Chogyam Trungpa

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

William Shakespeare

All is well ended, if the suit be won.

Bill Nighy

If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

Alan Shepard

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

Alan King

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

Charlaine Harris

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

Anne Sullivan

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

John Daly

They don't make suits for this big boy.

Michael Serrano

These young people, they are wearing suits because they want to.

Kit Harington

I trained in theater. And I started in theater with my first two jobs doing stage plays.

Jason Rogers

This is what we do. This is what we're trained for.

Tiffany Thornton

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

Theresa Breslin

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

Twyla Tharp

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

Jeff Mullins

She actually trained like an old mare; she never did train like a 2-year-old, ... She's always done what we wanted her to.

Atticus Ross

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

Spencer Boldman

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

Liang Chow

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Carolyn Clark

As you can see, you get really dirty. But you know you worked if you get dirty.

Gene Fraise

It's the same as it is at home. We've always worked together.

Shanna Zolman

There's a lot of things that need to be worked on before we get to where we need to be.

Stewart Butterfield

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

David Crystal

It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.

Douglas Booth

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Sophie Turner

I used to fancy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I didn't tell him that when we worked together on 'Another Me.'