Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Joel Rosenberg

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Marguerite Young

I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present a whole life in three of four pages. I used that method.

Clarence Day

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.

William Greider

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

Robert McCloskey

I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere.

Kevin Gray

The first show I got that was a really big starring role on Broadway was 'Phantom of the Opera.' It led to a few others so it's been a good run. I can't complain.

Robert Fitzgerald

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.

Alvin Toffler

The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Geir Braathen

The size of this year's ozone hole is approaching an all-time high, but it will probably not break any records.

Andre Agassi

Ivo, it's so hard to break him. One or two points can decide the match. It was good to close that one out, this was getting tougher.

Dennis Means

Some people would suggest you charge them 20 percent or even 30 percent, but you can still give your kids a break and teach them a lesson. Mostly you just want to use the rent as an incentive to encourage them to think about moving out as soon as possible. Otherwise they might get too comfortable and that isn't going to teach them responsibility.

Jasmine Trias

Some people think in four years I'm going to give up, but that's definitely not me, ... I'm going to keep on going until it happens because I love doing it. Now that I've got my foot in the door I don't want to stop. I want to keep on going. Since there isn't that Filipino or someone from Hawai'i that's broken those barriers, I want to be that first one to break those barriers.

Joel Schumacher

So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, 'Outta light, guys' - and that was it.

Brad Kassell

Special teams are fun. Sometimes they give me a break after a long drive, but they're fun. It's an all-out effort thing, and it's so different than regular defense. Everybody likes kickoff. You can run down there and run into people. It's fun.

Burmese Proverb

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

Tucker Max

You can't fill your emails with crap, at least not with my friends, because they're brutal. If something sucks, they'll tell you.

David Letterman

Hillary has now erased all of her emails, and she also had all of her pantsuits dry cleaned.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

Jamie Dixon

You see teams go on runs and win 20 games one or two years in a row. You really separate yourself if you do it three, four and now five years. It puts you on a whole other level. It's something a lot of people didn't think could be done here.

Paul Konerko

We're happy we don't have to see him a lot. In the last five years, when he's been healthy, he's been doing the job. It's not a lack of skills. It's just a matter of that injury. If he gets healthy, he's going to do some damage.

Lizzy Caplan

I saw 'Clueless' five times in the theatre when I was growing up.

Gerald McRaney

For the last four or five years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this one because the script and the people were terrific. It never frightened me. As we were doing the pilot, I could tell that it was working.

James Kennedy

As I look at the opportunities between now and 2010, I think they're very, very stable. For five years, it's growing.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Tom Odell

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

Bruce Steinberg

And the signs since the fourth quarter suggest growth picking up in the first quarter more strongly than most people had anticipated. So I would say the recovery is here.

Reggie Sanders

Each day is better, ... I'm not 100 percent. I'm not going to be 100 percent because it's going to take another three to four months for it to heal completely. For me, it's being 100 percent functional and doing what I need to do to help the ballclub win.

Jim Valentine

We have a 75 percent attendance. One out of four students don't show up. At lunch time we lose 15 to 20 percent more. We can't teach them unless they're in class.

Saundra Hess

We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity.

Harry Gunatillake

It is better to have talks about talks than have nothing at all. I think by the middle of this month we should see some movement.

Sarah Dessen

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

Paul Rudd

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

Tim Cahill

a narrative story -- one with a beginning, a middle and an end. I used to take miles and miles and hundreds and hundreds of pages of notes, and I still do. But now, about three-quarters of the way through the thing, I can see the structure of the story in my mind.

Michael Perkins

She is a versatile player, and she can do a lot of different things. She can post up as a guard, and she can shoot, too.

Randeep Hooda

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Charles Darwin

The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.

Jared Bernstein

The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity.

Janine Benyus

After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Michael Owen Bruce

It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Jonathan Galassi

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

Jon Postel

Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.

Spike Jonze

Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again.