Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyndi Valentin

As far as the team, we didn't want to end our careers like that. We wanted to fight, stay alive and keep playing.

Maxine Russell

It would have taken two hours of their time and Darren would be alive today.

David Bowie

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

Ray Nagin

everything you hoped to happen is happening. Algiers is alive and well and breathing.

Jack Bruce

We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.

Amartya Sen

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Ambrose Bierce

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

Andre Breton

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.

Stevie Smith

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.

Dave Band

You're the love of my life and the breath in my prayers. Take my hand and lead me there.. what I need is you here. I can't forget the taste of your mouth from your lips all the heavens pour out. I can't forget when we are one. With you alone I am free.

Kenneth Williams

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.

Granth Sahib

Embellished and immaculate is that place where the Saints gather together. He alone finds shelter, who has met the Perfect Guru.

Kathleen Jenkins

Every gang member that I have worked with is enamored by the hip-hop culture and the lifestyles of this genre's rich and famous. It is common for youths to emulate these rap artists by wearing similar gangster-type clothing. This alone is not concerning. The concern evolves when the behavior and attitude begin to go as south as the pants. Certain rap artists tout their criminal history, gang affiliation and their fortune of surviving gun battles. It becomes a concern, when dealing with a very troubled individual that is consumed by the gang mentality.

A. Milne

Wolfson specializes in this particular area. We focus only on the analogue and mixed signal area; we don't do the stand alone digital technology.

Martin Rees

There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people.

Ann Coulter

isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on 'The West Wing,' (television show) let alone to be a real one.

Granth Sahib

Whatever You do, God, that alone comes to pass.

Matt Davidson

We missed 10 free throws in the first half alone and the first half of four 1-and-1s. We make those and we would have led at halftime.

Rich McKay

The misses are hard to recover from. And the pressure on the player is tremendous. Typically, a player drafted No.1, 2 or 3 is on that team because they weren't very good. Now, everybody is labeling that player as the savior. He's just a rookie. That's not fair.

Matt Hughes

Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.

Dan Bartlett

You hit panic mode if you don't like the first draft at all.

Mike Shanahan

We'd sure take him. He's the type of guy you love because he handles himself with so much class. When you have a guy who does that as a rookie being drafted as high as he was, it speaks volumes for the future.

Jim Knowles

We hope he gets drafted on the first day. It's great for us and the Ivy League in general.

Bobby Johnson

He was exactly right. He bettered us, he bettered his draft position and had a lot of fun doing it.

Tommy Williams

I don't know what they're talking about. A draft is just a draft until it's adopted.

Dick Jauron

I remember more the players than all the other stuff, but it was a wild day. It obviously ended up being a terrific draft for us.

Larry Brown

I love the kid. I begged my friends who had earlier picks than New Orleans to draft him. He's phenomenal.

Robert Scoble

The problem with Flipboard is that it's an app, not the Web, and I keep hoping someone will show me a really well-designed Web app that shows me that the Web can still win.

William Mitchell

We are hoping the trend for housing continues.

Jason Williams

Scoring is up around the NHL, so I'm not going to think too much about it. But it's obviously it's a milestone I was hoping to reach.

Harry Masch

Neither team played well last time we played. I'm just hoping we can play better and see what happens.

Mario Bailey

He's just a freshman. He's just great. I'm just hoping he can stay humble and keep working hard.

Tim McRae

If Ciccone learns how to squat-clean, the sky's the limit. He's been power-cleaning, so I'm hoping to get him squat-cleaning by next year.

Kinky Friedman

How sad for him to be hoping for a small turnout.

Ron Gardenhire

He likes to play and he'll play through anything, so when he has to sit out, you know he's hurting. That's a little scary. I'm just hoping it's not a lingering thing.

Dennis Ruedinger

He seems to be doing all right. We're hoping by (today) he'll be able to do some light workouts and get some shooting in. It looks like he'll be on pace to do that. We'll be able to go pretty solid on Wednesday and Thursday with him.

Scott Brooks

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

Maria Fernandez

She starts by making her own paper from pulp.

Sarah Silverman

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.

Martin Straka

I can't say it in the paper what I told him.

H. L. Mencken

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

David Davies

If he took the papers in... that, I'm afraid, is a very unwise thing for him to do and I do think this is a resigning issue.

Werner Heisenberg

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

Will Self

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Faythe Levine

If you've never been to the Paper Boat, we have over 100 artists' work on sale in the store.

Archie Manning

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jane Smiley

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Bobby Womack

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

Charles Spurgeon

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Eleanor Smeal

She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

Eric Hornbeck

As long as I can feel like I'm doing good, I'm going to be here. It could be tomorrow, it could be a month, I don't have those answers. However, if we can keep the search going, I will stay.

Matt Rosoff

MSN may want to sell search to AOL.

Bible Bible

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

Edward Fitzgerald

And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass.

William Blake

Father! father! where are you going? / O do not walk so fast. / Speak, father, speak to your little boy, / Or else I shall be lost.

Dolly Parton

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Gayle Korczyk

It is was a "GOD MOMENT" that I shall never forget.

Ronald Reagan

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

George Muller

They that trust in the Lord shall never be confounded!

Eddie Rickenbacker

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

Marsha Sharp

Every single trip down the floor, we're going to take a look at LaToya first and see if we can find her.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Drew Barrymore

I love being single. It's great. I get to be who I am and do what I want and be with the people I love. I feel like I have everything and I'm very fortunate, and it's very rich fulfilling time in my life.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Amanda Schull

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Robert H. Schuller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Rajneesh

I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.

Seth MacFarlane

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

Florence King

Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

Robert Anthony

Do something whatever you do, it will be better than sitting and hoping things will improve.

Soren Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

John Steinbeck

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.

Scott Young

I was sitting over there and all of a sudden bam, bam, bam.

Rosa Parks

she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.

Jill Clayburgh

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Fan Bingbing

I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen!

Cassandra Clare

Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin?" "Not really," said Simon. "Magnus is wearing lederhosen." "And yet, still no.

Jeremy Miller

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

Jonathan Toews

I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.

Ted White

The suspects had no idea who they were trying to rob.

Tom Perkins

We'll have to find some way around it. There probably is a way...I suspect something will come up.

Tom Rosenstiel

Some Americans will be curious, but I suspect most will be wary. Some will be infuriated.

Horace

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No.

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Seamus Heaney

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

John Lydon

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

Lyle Lovett

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.