Famous Quotes & Sayings

James M. Barrie

If I were younger, I'd know more.

John Piper

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

Jim Deckard

I wish I could answer your questions of what we expect to happen, but unfortunately we're not in control of that process.

E. Helm

I wish I could answer that. That thing is in the House and the Senate. In the House, it's dead. In the Senate, they worry me. There are some weird people over there.

Eric Hornbeck

I guess it's better to have an answer than going the next 20 years wondering.

Beth Givens

If they answer yes, then ask, 'How are you making sure that my information is being protected?' If you don't like the answer, take your business to another financial institution.

Carol Rees

She's been calling her mother periodically to let her know she's OK, but she doesn't answer the phone when we try to call her. We don't think she's in any danger. She's been telling her mother she's all right, but she just doesn't want to come home.

Jeff Sluman

She's got all of our respect. We understand how difficult it is out here. She's going to win a lot of tournaments in her lifetime. Everybody should just let it happen and let her progress. The answer will come five years down the road, not these seven tournaments (vs. men pros).

Orrin Hatch

She's going to have to answer a lot of questions about her judicial philosophy, and I believe that she will be able to do that,

Rex Hadnot

She's from Ohio. This all new stuff for her. I had to answer a lot of questions I didn't know the answers to.

Paul Weller

When I was a kid in Woking, every week you went to the football dance, and every week the top kids would be wearing something different. You were constantly trying to catch up with them - which you could never do because, by the time you'd saved up enough to buy the item, they'd moved on to something else. That's the whole Mod thing, I suppose.

Jose Bove

Firstly consumers refused to buy these frozen chickens and producers reacted by producing more local chicken.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Every time there's a dip in the market, we buy. If you don't buy the land right, it ain't going to work.

Liu Jingmin

Except for those reserved for the Olympic family, most of the tickets will be sold on the market. Foreign spectators in 202 countries and regions worldwide can buy the tickets via their own Olympic committees.

Hilary Cook

There's renewed confidence - companies are feeling happy, they are feeling pretty good about life. They are saying we don't need this money for a rainy day: we can buy extra growth.

Franco Harris

There's probably going to be about $100 million spent to buy the property ... for all the roads and everything that goes into that. Guess who has to pay for that? It's going to be us, the taxpayers. We're going to pay that money.

Robert Hayes

The response has been tremendous. People hear it once, and they get up off the couch to buy the album.

Nestor Aguila

There's still time to buy before the long holiday.

Hiroaki Kuramochi

There's so much gloom out there it's hard to find any reason to buy right now.

Albert Camus

I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.

Amory Lovins

Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007-and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence.

Evan Osnos

In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of step. It is a splendid jumble of centuries, full of sizzling pot stickers and bleating cell phones, pungent rice wine and bullfrogs as plump as softballs.

Dan Moser

If you are not hyper vigilant, if you look away just to look at your coffee or your radio, it's only a matter of time before you hit someone. God forbid that you are talking on your cell phone.

George Mercer

If you're on the cell phone, pull off the road. Or use a hands-free device.

Ofer Lefler

In our jails they haven't got cell phones - I hope. And they haven't got permission to call. They are prisoners. That's the whole story.

John Gurdon

In principle. what is done is to take the nucleus out of a cell with a very fine micro-pipette or needle and introduce it into an egg. That had been done with amphibians a long time ago, and then there was a long pause of many years before people were clever enough to make that work in the sheep.

Ben Rogers

Clearly, the days when parents admonished their kids to use cell phones only for emergencies are over.

Tami Erickson

His dad called him on the cell phone and got him.

Anne Lamott

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

Bobby Hamilton

I can't think about what happened in 2001 and what kind of season it was. It was a good season. But like I say, I hope I can have a season like that, turn it back around and go to the big dance (this year).

James Howe

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

Luc de Clapiers

Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

Dick Vermeil

All they told us, ... is there's 2,000 people decorating the dance floor.

Mata Hari

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a world.

Norman Mailer

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Ellen DeGeneres

You're gonna be ok, dum de dum dum dum, just dance.

Robert Gottlieb

Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.

Bella Thorne

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

Marcelo Enriquez

South is a very good team and I knew they were going to be much more competitive the second round.

Joe Linta

Special teams will be his meal ticket. He's got good speed and good hands. He's a real good 51, 52 or 53-type guy on the roster who can do a lot of things for you.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams was good tonight, especially the penalty kill.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Merrill Markoe

Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.

Merle Shain

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Oscar Wilde

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!

Michel de Montaigne

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me...

Michel de Montaigne

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Gunther Cunningham

Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking.

David Carr

Seven weeks might sound like a short time. But I can get a lot done in that span.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Chris Larsen

Some people would say we're being overly-conservative. But I say we're being realistic for our first year planning.

Source Unknown

Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.

Harry Wang

Some people will not be tolerant about this.

Jill Lepore

Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

John Cassidy

Some people were frightened, ran to their basement, or ran out of doors.

Michelle Lombardo

Some people watched the show just because of the wardrobe, ... That's exciting.

Tracey Emin

Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons.

Lori Mottu

Some people told us not to put the restaurant in Ceresco because of the size and location. But that's really why we're doing this. There's nothing here.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Todd McFarlane

About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

Skylar Astin

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.

Isaac Asimov

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

Bella Thorne

I love Michael Kors! I also love Miu Miu shoes - they're fabulous, I have so many pairs.

Bobby Darin

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

Pierre Lafontaine

We're not really competitive yet, but we're sure getting there.

Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

Maya Angelou

At our best, we're all teachers

Meg Whitman

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Max Beerbohm

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Max Brooks

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.

Matthew McConaughey

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.

Maria Montessori

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

Maria Montessori

The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .

Maria Montessori

In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.

J. G. Ballard

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.