Famous Quotes & Sayings

Travis Paquet

We were down by two with eight seconds left to go, but they made some foul shots and we couldn't convert.

Theo de Raadt

So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said 'no, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.

Michele Bachmann

The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion - well, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specific Congressional district.

Meg Cabot

I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

John Olver

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

Peter Diamandis

As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.

Peter Drucker

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

Nicolas Cage

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

Liam Gallagher

We should be judged as musicians, and bloody fine ones at that.

Rick Riordan

Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good.

Rick Riordan

Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care.

Richard Branson

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

Timothy McVeigh

Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn't come to that! But it might.

Robert A. Heinlein

Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

Rip Torn

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

Rutherford B. Hayes

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

Sam Smith

[A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Tove Jansson

But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.

Robert Johnson

Don't ever knock a bottle out of my hand.

Roddy Doyle

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

Robertson Davies

Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?

Robert Stack

Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.