Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Joel Davis

Compassion was never a strong suit of mine, but almost by default, I have become much more sensitive to people with disabilities and other setbacks,

John Challenger

Companies are starving for people with technology skills. I think people are kind of shocked. It's certainly almost taboo in society. Parents tell their kids the last thing they should do is skip college for the big money.

Josh Duncan

Coach (Sean) Miller really stresses that and it becomes more of a mental thing once you hear it you know and hear it so much. It becomes almost like a natural instinct.

Jamie McNeilly

Coach mentioned to us playing 40 minutes. We're almost there. We're playing about 36 minutes. We just need to translate that extra four minutes into positive stuff, and we'll be OK.

Colt Sedbrook

Coach Lopez said if it is out there, the pitch will find me. It seems like almost every game I am getting dotted. I got hit in the helmet this time. It was a good thing I was wearing one. There was some ringing in my ears, but it went away.

Ryan Brown

Coach keeps us so well prepared, and we were executing almost perfectly in the first half. We showed a lot of courage to battle back and take control after they made a run at us.

J. Taylor

Cole's just talking -- ain't nobody jealous of no Cole. Cole was running so slow. I was going to try to help him out, but I almost knocked him down. He fell in the end zone, so that's a good thing.

Aaron Green

Colby almost turned it over twice, but he stayed with it. It was a great win.

Steve Winwood

My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.

Brian Eno

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

Ron Nelson

We lost all our pitching from last year, but we got a team ERA of like 1.1 right now and I just never imagined that.

Christopher Paolini

Eragon. Is that all you say? Yes.

Lech Walesa

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

Jeff Halpern

He's still getting chances. I know as well as anyone, goalies are good. You are not always going to score. He's the type of guy who can go out and get four goals the next two games and erase the drought.

George Hamilton

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

Jim Bankoff

I think it's even more important to have quality in this era of Web media than it has ever been. The fusion of platform technology plus talent is what the next wave is all about, and that's where Vox Media is positioned.

Jorge Castaneda

to establish a new era in U.S.-Mexico relations.

Kurt Angle

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.

Lauren Kellin

We usually get it done somehow. We've always been a third-period team. As soon as we put all three periods together, we feel there will be no stopping us.

Jim Clyburn

We went through a period where we got rid of everything that was old. Everything had to be new

Pam Girardo

We went from 'Capital Who?' to 'Capital One' in a very short period of time.

Corey Hart

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

Gillian Flynn

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.

Glen Campbell

I can't tell you how short a period it seems like -- 32 years -- to 1967. And now I'm up here getting the Pioneer Award. Then I was getting the go get 'em award.

Michael Fisher

That's going to be a big piece of (the lawsuit).

W. S. Gilbert

We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here.

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Frank Garcia

We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alfred Kazin

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Dodie Smith

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

David Christian

I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".

Kirk Hoza

A vivid picture. One of the worst things I have seen.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

Nikola Tesla

I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

H. G. Wells

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

Eric Hoffer

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.