Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Pierce Baker

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important that, to the extent possible, those contingency plans be coordinated, that each branch work in concert with the other. I don't think that's been done adequately to date, but I am confident that it could be in the future,

Peter Angelos

I think the past three years Jim Beattie has been leading the effort with strong assistance from Mike. Now it will be Mike's chance. I think Mike is very capable and a very bright guy who certainly is adequate to perform the job.

Kathy Lewis

Lack of adequate NIH funding is particularly dangerous in a relatively small field like spinal cord injury. For our field to continue to grow and push therapies to the patient, NIH funding is critical. Our scientists are telling us the situation is desperate. How do you tell someone recently paralyzed that the science is there but the funding is not?

Piet Smith

We're not working as efficiently and effectively as we could be. Without adequate staff, appliances and equipment, we can't render this service as well as we should be.

Richard Martin

We are finding that the President has surrounded himself with some capable and pretty knowledgeable people. I am comfortable that they will adequately be able to represent the issues.

Gerald Garrett

It is probably not going to happen, ... At this point, I have had no indication from the members that we need to have a formal hearing to adequately explore this matter.

John Hines

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

James Loney

I am grateful in a way that can never be adequately expressed in words. To the British soldiers who risked their lives to rescue us, to the government of Canada who sent a team to Baghdad to help secure our release, to all those who thought about us and prayed for us, for all those who spoke for us when we had no voice, I am forever and truly grateful. It's great to be alive.

The Wizard

If you're working in a restaurant, you can't play at being a waitress. Food gets to the table or it doesn't, and you're paid to get it there. It's a straightforward exchange. Now (in Bait and Switch ), I entered a world where so much depends on your personality and self-presentation. I found that very murky.

Scott Sickau

In northeast Iowa at a small bait and tackle shop, I bought a cheap kit for $10 or $15 that had been sitting on the shelf for many years, and started using all the materials to tie flies.

Mark Collins

You used the medication as bait to him?

Troy Swauger

It's illegal to bait wildlife into a kill zone.

Billy Donovan

They were kind of baiting us into it a little bit. I thought we took the bait at times.

Dwight Taylor

They were hungry. They saw some bait and went after it.

Bernie Sanders

We want to stop the bait and switch scams by which college students, low income and working employees throughout the country and are essentially lying to them,

Damien Woody

You're not going to bait me into giving you what you want to hear.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Never say die." At long intervals, however, some one says: "The die is cast," which is not true, for it is cut. The word is found in an immortal couplet by that eminent poet and domestic economist, Senator Depew:A cube of cheese no larger than a die May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie.

Clint Land

Knowing the place names for various stretches of the river comes in handy when you're inquiring about local fishing activity.

David Morgan

We just have to get this right, because there are not enough fish left.

Bruce Alexander

I was just tired of being a big fish in a small pond. This will be something different.

Steve Davies

He was pretty quiet. But every time the fish took out line, he'd kind of moan because everything he'd just done was undone.

Gary Richardson

He had a big fish on and it just took him,

Latin Proverbs

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

Vinnie Jones

I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.

Virginia Woolf

the profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not ...

Yanni

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

Mel Stottlemyre

I would tell him what it's like and I wouldn't leave anything out, ... You've got to satisfy two sets of people here and it shouldn't be that way.

Leslie Moonves

Katie's someone we like a lot. But you know what? Katie's been at NBC a long, long time. We'll leave it at that.

Paul Sanders

I think I subconsciously do (try to leave people out). I don't want to be intruding in people's lives.

Steve Clarke

He leaves a strong legacy for the country.

Stephen Hunter

I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.

Kenny Rogers

He's a dead-pull hitter. Leave it to me to get him to go the other way with what I throw.

Gordon Roberts

He's a worker. He never misses a day. He's (in the weight room) first and leaves last.

Jose Guillen

We're poor people who live here and we don't know where to go. The situation is tough. We'd like to know specifically what they're going to do and not leave us stranded on the street.

Ray Nagin

Today I feel better about Rita, and I'm not as prone to do a hard, mandatory evacuation, ... But I want to leave that open as an option.

Carrie Cunningham

He said he would get a letter out to students seven weeks ago and we have not received it yet.

Abdel Atwan

I think the letter is genuine. We can't verify it because we don't know where he is, he is on the run. I have seen his signature before and it looks like it. I think it is authentic.

Chuck Wright

I think whoever wrote the letter is trying to do the right thing, and I'm thankful,

Cynthia Jeanguenat

I have done those for people who have received those letters and they find out they have a refund.

Greg Strobel

I am going to miss each one of them for special reasons. Zinck, for his maturity and the forwardness in the way he practices; Coop in terms of the way he wrestles, he's just phenomenal in the practice room; Letters with his talent; and Frick with his hard-nosed attitude.

Joanne Cortese

He'd write letters to people he'd feel should be donors.

Virginia Woolf

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

Virginia Woolf

I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.

Salman Rushdie

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

Pat Camden

just pulled up to people and started shooting at various victims and went from one location to the other.

Oliver Perez

I threw 100 percent. I used my splitter. My slider was good. My location was good. Right now, I feel really good.

Saul Bellow

It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

John Jones

I just talked to my owner, and he's negative. We're an Oakland institution. We've been in Oakland since 1921 and in this location about 25 years.

Cliff Lee

I missed with my location on that one. I got lucky there.

Meg Whitman

The geographical location is just perfect for us,

John Cassavetes

The greatest location in the world is the human face.

Joss Whedon

We had the camera locked, but not the location of the sun.

Buddy Bell

It wasn't one of his better starts. The location wasn't as good, but (the Yankees) have a tough lineup.

Ian Shepherdson

He used the word 'pre-emptive,' which was the signal he used before the March 1997 rate hike.

Warren G. Bennis

Cicero talks, and people marvel; Ceasar talks and people march

Jim Waldvogel

In March we should start seeing what the regulations are going to look like.

Maxim Medvedkov

In March 2007, Russia could become a member.

Khaled Hosseini

In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

Dustin Langley

The march to the U.N. is to say, 'hands off Iran.

Ismael Zayer

The clerics are the kingmakers, the peacemakers and the war-makers. People are marching by order of clerics and stopping by order of clerics.

Ken Goldstein

This is a jab, it's not a haymaker, ... What we see here in March is probably the end of it.

Jim Steiner

We still have some very serious negotiating to do between now and March 3.

Edwin Whipple

Knowledge, like religion, must be ''experienced'' in order to be known.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Plaxico Burress

We've got to get things in order off the field, too.

Ronda Rousey

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Umberto Eco

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

Richard M. Nixon

Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation. Once again, prudence dictates a more gradual increase in the wage rate, so that the economy can more easily absorb the impact.

Rian Johnson

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

Raymond E. Feist

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

Viviana Diaz

Pinochet is not as sick as they say. And it has been proved (Friday) with the kind of reception they organized for him.

Ian Mckellen

I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.

Kim Harrison

What was it with me and organized beatings, anyway?

Dolores Huerta

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

Max Brooks

Organize before they rise!

Robert Myers

Many people want to restrict your access. They are well organized and very vocal.

Vicente Fox

On that side and this side there is organized crime. On that side and this side there is drug consumption.

John Marshall

Because Ray was so organized anyway, we just kind of plugged things in and we go.

Michael Leunig

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

Rick Wagoner

These negotiations were done in a positive, cooperative, problem-solving spirit, ... While it may have taken some time to reach this cooperative solution, I think it was time well-spent.

Nizar Hamdoon

The only way to try to reach out ... is if the American administration sits down and talks with the Iraqis.

Brad Smith

We don't understand how they can reach these conclusions, because they haven't read or reviewed these documents.

Christopher Hill

We are trying to work with it, ... We are trying to reach something with it. How this turns out we don't know yet.

Joseph Biden

We have to do more to reach out and get the rest of the world in on the game,

Bruce Teitelbaum

We have not received any offer. They know how to reach us.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Fred G. Gosman

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Susan Burgess

He stated that he thought the timing would be better.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.