Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Horsey

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

Chris Patten

We do think the appalling economic circumstances in the West Bank and Gaza, that the economic blockade by Israel, that the non-payment of revenues by Israel to the Palestinian Authority, that these things make the security situation worse,

Herman Gorter

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.

Doug Whitley

I find it appalling that legislators would wish to gag employers so that they will not communicate with employees regarding public policies and civic issues, when we know employees would very much want to know what employers think about issues.

Eric Epstein

I find it appalling from an ethical and moral vantage point that you can actually profit from stealing from the treasury. There should be an incentive to return the money.

Nick Harkaway

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

Karen Maitland

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

Arthur Smith

A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a break from the appalling Men & Motors channel. I don't agree.

Zac Goldsmith

Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.

Gillian Armstrong

We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.

Romeo Crennel

That would have helped if we would've made that play. He just dropped it, it looked like to me.

Brad Kassell

That was probably the key to the victory. Every time they dropped back to pass he was getting harassed. Those guys up front dominated.

Mavis Staples

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

Peter Segal

Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about stories like that.

Mike Miller

Where we used to do 10,000 (skiers) a year, we dropped down to 7,000 last year.

Kevin Yates

I was very pleased with how we swam. A lot of swimmers dropped time and showed they could handle (the pressure of) big meets.

Lisa Whiting

I think she was dropped off but we don't know by who. Her story is really inconsistent. We are trying to get information out of her but she's shutting down.

Kyle Conrad

It dropped right on the line, just like I wanted.

Randy Houser

First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

Mikhail Gorbachev

You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.

Philip Hoffman

I wish there was a podium here - you wouldn't see my knees shaking.

Vance Wilson

Ultimately, he's got to pitch at the knees and then go up in the strike zone. His motor runs pretty high, and he wants to pitch up early.

Beverly Lewis

Courage is fear on its knees.

Denzel Washington

I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.

Charles Manson

All you fakers are in for it. I begged you on my knees and you didn't listen and now I can't hear you.

Che Guevara

Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.

Bear Bryant

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

Torry Holt

We need to knock them in the mouth and get some three-and-outs,

Pierce Brosnan

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

Clark Haggans

We've knocked down seven of the eight. We just have one more to go.

Stephen Ames

You can get it going and knock out your opponent, or it can go the opposite way.

Jermain Taylor

Whoever comes to Little Rock, I'm knocking him out!

Tom Little

Just because something is old, you shouldn't get rid of it. If that were the case, we would knock down all our old buildings.

Tanya Lukowiak

Those are two separate issues. We're not looking to knock down the Olympia Theatre and put the Manatee Players there.

Marvin Harrison

I was trying to get up slowly so I wouldn't get knocked in the head, ... and I got up and ran.

Kevin Pittsnogle

I think I had a lot of open looks, but I just didn't knock them down, especially in the second half.

Clark Haggans

We've knocked down seven of the eight. We just have one more to go.

Marvin Harrison

I was trying to get up slowly so I wouldn't get knocked in the head, ... and I got up and ran.

Clifton Lee

I was relaxed, went through my routine and knocked them down. I wanted them to keep fouling me.

Mack Brown

I wish he had not played as a freshman. He was never 100 percent after he got knocked out. He played but not as much as he wanted to.

Steve Kinser

I'm all right. It knocked the top down and I got trapped in the car. That's about it.

Scooter Dunn

He knocked the stitches out of it over at practice.

Shannon Brown

I don't know what it is. I wish I did, and if I did he wouldn't do it. He just knocked shots down.

Larry Coker

From my understanding, they were knocked unconscious with a helmet.

Brandon Claussen

When I walked over there, he wasn't moving. He was knocked out. He wasn't moving at all.

Greg Cipes

I don't watch TV. Only while I'm doing it do I see it, really. So I don't know anything. I only know old reggae artists. So that's my thing. Old reggae artists and martial arts.

Wong Kar-wai

I didn't know anything about martial arts. I'm a big fan, but I never practiced martial arts.

Katheryn Winnick

I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.

Lesley Nicol

My husband is a martial artist, and he thinks it's hilarious that I have a stage-fighting-proficiency certificate. He thinks that's ridiculous. Can't say I've used it much.

Reggie Lewis

We were shocked when we had to go back out there on the onside kick.

Joe Hampton

I'm shocked by the turnout. We're very pleased.

Doug Eddings

Yes. That's why I was pretty shocked at what took place.

Bobby Bowden

I was shocked that he wasn't first team All-ACC. It made so sense.

Jeff Justice

I would be shocked if we had a verdict before the first of April.

Janet Jacobs

When he told us, I got up from the table, shocked and surprised,

Dan Brown

I have been shocked at their reaction. Furthermore I do not really understand it.

Richard Shoemaker

I'd be shocked if it was done by this weekend.

William Arbaugh

would be shocked if they solved the problem.

Muhammad Ali

I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There's nobody in the world like me. I'm getting out just in time. If I was twenty seven, I could still kick ass. I don't have to beat Holmes. Why? I raised him, he worked three years as a sparring partner for me.

P. G. Wodehouse

You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.

Larry Holmes

Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Robert Battle

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.