Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Reese

Kevin has been extremely durable just year after year. Kevin is one of those guys who understands what winning is and knows how to win and can help everybody along that way.

Bill Parcells

Kick would be a term of endearment, really. It wouldn't be kick with the idea of hurting them, just kind of move them along a little faster. ... Some are happy to be here, you know?

Mitch Layne

Kelsey had been further along on her quilt than anyone else.

Lesley Garrett

Just walking along Shaftesbury Avenue gave me such a buzz - it still does - and communicating with an audience through music is still the biggest thrill in the world.

John C. McGinley

Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you get over to the western side of the mountains, it's populated by Spanish broom - this beautiful, yellow, flowering weed that smells the way I imagine it smells along the Yellow Brick Road.

Charles Schumer

Just when you think our campaign system couldn't possibly get any worse, along comes the discovery of this new loophole, ... Section 527 is the largest, most disturbing, pernicious loophole in a system rife with backdoor ways to influence government.

David Franks

He just wanted to do some different stuff. He'll be missed. He got along with the players. He got along with the coach. I wish he was still here.

Sean Taylor

He just has the guts. We've talked all along that he's such a good 15-foot shooter that he just has confidence that the ball is going in. It was a big one.

Justin Vincent

He is the best singer on the team. If he was in here, he would sing it for you along with some other stuff. I know it to a certain extent, but I'm not going to sing it for you.

Andy Irvine

He (McKie) is not going to wave a magic wand and find a loose-head prop that's going to demolish the All Blacks or pull out a winger that will put Rokocoko to shame. That's not his role. There is no quick fix,

Susan Howell

In order to get large numbers of blacks back into New Orleans would require huge amounts of money.

James Williams

At Boca Raton, when I got down there, they didn't segregate us - until they saw some other blacks - then they put the blacks in the rooms together.

Ed Renwick

A lot of whites thought there would not be another white mayor. And blacks thought there always would be a black mayor. Now they are starting to rethink their position.

Mary Ford

It's not surprising. A lot of blacks didn't get to go to school. They were kept from being educated. It hasn't been a question of talent, it's been a question of opportunity.

Kenny Leon

It's the ultimate universally engaging play, ... It was important to have 20-year-olds and 80-year-olds in the audience, to have blacks and whites in the audience.

Heather Danenhower

You can't hire blacks if there's not a pool of black recruits to choose from.

Willie Leftwich

It was the first time whites and blacks had ever played for the city championship.

John Smit

We're going to Dunedin to win the Tri-nations, not to defend it. We do not want to wait another week to see what will happen in the match between the All Blacks and the Wallabies. It is probably the worst thing in the world to wait and see if you are going to win the trophy. We must make sure we retain the title ourselves.

Drew Gilpin Faust

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Kirk Walters

He's a real vocal guy for us. He's a central part of our defense and our offense.

Alan Greenspan

History has demonstrated that implicit in any removal of power from central planners and broadening of market mechanisms -- as would occur under WTO -- is a more general spread of rights to individuals,

David Resler

It could be a drag on earnings...something that delays the revival of profits so central to the revival of the economy itself.

Yi Xianrong

It is a clear signal to the property market that the central government has the determination and the means to curb investments and housing prices.

Jon Katz

I think the new reality that's converging all this is, you have on the one end this culture of extraordinarily gifted outsiders who have patched together the Internet. And then there's the rest of the world -- business, education and politics -- that suddenly has woken up to the fact that they desperately need the Internet. It's very important. And so they become sort of central while still not being in the mainstream.

Robert H. Connelly

I think that if the tribe can demonstrate that this site is central and essential to its religion, it has a good chance of success in this case,

Kemp Ewing

I think that they've just got some talent going to Lenoir-Rhyne from this area. And to be coming from South Central really means a lot to us. I think that with the young coaches teaching these guys and what they're going to teach, you're going to see some more guys walk through these doors and sign and do some things in the future.

Stephen Colbert

I want to thank Comedy Central for picking up the show, but more importantly I want to congratulate Comedy Central for picking up the show,

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Victor Navasky

Kennedy used him to mediate on civil rights issues. Ramsey is seen these days as a very polarizing force. But, in fact, one of his talents is mediation and reconciliation.

Lawrence Wilkerson

Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Jim Cooper

There is a growing unease, but all the folks I talked to support our troops, want us to win in the Middle East and still trust our military leaders to do the right thing. I think there's some skepticism of our civilian leaders.

Jaspher Ombati

It is not our intention to violate people's civil rights. Our intentions are noble -- to save people's lives.

Jim Haslett

I think it is a great testament to the guys that they fought this hard.

Keith Cieplicki

I thought we were physical in the first half, fought for balls.

Jill Officer

It is a disappointment but you can learn something from everything. We did really great this week, we fought really hard and we should be proud of ourselves.

Charles Kennedy

Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.

Joe Nemechek

We took our licks, but nobody knocked us out. We fought like our soldiers right to the end.

Tim Madden

I thought we fought really hard throughout the lineup. I was really impressed with how some of our guys were able to come back and gut out some wins.

Laura Watten

I think we had a good day. We had one rough inning, but we rebounded and fought back. The team has a lot to be proud of; they have shown growth and improvement.

Marcus Hall

I think that's where the maturity of our team comes in. We kept our cool, kept our heads and just fought it out.

Pat Fitterer

I think we're healthy and ready. We got hit with some sickness at the end of the season but we fought through it and won some tough games. I like the way we finished.

Carl Forti

Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.

Friedrich Muller

His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Thomas Vinje

What Microsoft is talking about is freedom for them to innovate, not others.

John Oates

We've done that over the years, each of us releasing solos. I think that's why we're still together. That freedom doesn't keep us too restricted.

Lyndsey Medders

He's given me that freedom since I was a freshman to make those calls. We have a lot of trust in each other. It's neat we're on the same page like that.

William J. Brennan

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

Viola Spolin

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

William James

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

Rudy Rucker

Physical laws provide, at best, a recipe for how the world might be computed in parallel particle by particle and region by region.

Jose Morales

The Mexicans are going to keep coming, wall or no wall, new laws or old laws.

Brian Oxman

This is a lawsuit that never should have been brought. I'm pleased it's over.

Bobby Schindler

It's going to take a little while before these laws are actually changed.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Mike Garcia

A lot of states have laws where you can't get into school without proof of immunization.

Rosemarie Arnold

This plea is Step One in the vindication process. The lawsuit is Step Two.

Ziad Asali

As a practical matter, they think that the new members of the parliament will be more amenable to pass these laws than the present one. They're comfortable that it will pass then. But they do not rule it out now.

Lloyd Chapman

These lawsuits are a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Lane Donati

We took too many penalties and that took us out of our game.

Greg Thomas

There are no retrospective penalties in the game's regulations.

Jason Smith

It's tough when you're killing penalties all night. We're not getting the results we want.

Jay Norvell

It was a nightmare. We had penalties on things that were so elementary.

Terry Pratchett

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

Jock Stein

The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.

Sen. Aronberg

It says you can't put signs on the right of way, but there are also penalties for people who steal other people's signs.

Stu Barnes

Work ethic, turnovers, penalties ... that sums it up.

Pat Brogan

People feel like their Web sites must be compliant. They're wondering what the enforcement is going to be like and what the penalties will be. People are taking this very seriously.

Karen Parker

The boaters didn't like being restricted when they didn't have to be. The homeowners wanted stricter regulations.

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

William Perry

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Ryan Miller

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Reinhold Niebuhr

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Westbrook Pegler

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

Roald Dahl

Two rights don't equal a left.

William Shakespeare

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

Larry Wade

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand,

Rick Comer

Secure the ball, get it out and don't pivot with it because they're pressuring us.

Kai Holm

If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.

George Herbert

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Woodrow Wilson

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Wilbur Smith

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

Katy Mixon

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

Cal Brown

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Joe Slovo

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Kathie Lee Gifford

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

Pat Robertson

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Anne Patterson

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Jimmy Page

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.

Brad Penny

It was pretty stiff and it was getting worse.

Richard Jefferson

It is better. It is more a stiff back, it is not spasms anymore.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Fred Dexheimer

I'm surprised, particularly at how well the whites showed: crisp and summery.