Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.

Isabella Bird

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

Isabella Bird

The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a greeting, a farewell, thanks, love, goodwill. Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations; it meets you on the roads and at house-doors. It is conveyed to you in letters: the air is full of it.

Giles Foden

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

Yani Tseng

Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

Clay Shirky

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.

John Remington

The pilots would argue they're free to strike, and the airline would argue they legally couldn't. It's unclear. But the pilots are satisfied they could legally strike. And if they can't, they may do it anyway.

Niki Lauda

The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure.

Warren Farrell

We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

Oscar Wilde

There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Dan McLagan

The politically safe thing to would be to do nothing, and then blame the hurricane for any subsequent problems. But that's not leadership.

David H. Murdock

I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself.

Luca Cumani

The Americans are at home and we are away. He's had a change of scenery and a change in racing conditions. There's less pressure if he runs in the Classic. If you run him in the Mile, he has to win. If he runs in the Classic and doesn't win, we can blame it on the dirt. All in all, it's very difficult, but it can be done.

Norman Ornstein

That would have been a big plus for the president. You get the blame when you're the top dog. And in this case, I think there is no doubt that we had inadequate preparation and we've had inadequate response.

Sebastian Telfair

We need to keep coming out and give an effort and try to get a win. You can blame our (15) turnovers, defense, and you can blame Ray also. He hit shots like I can't even explain.

Pat Brown

We just didn't play with the kind of effort we've been playing with. If we didn't feel like we were prepared, then I'll take the blame for that.

Karson Klass

We played our hearts out in the game before that and we didn't have anything left. I blamed myself (for the loss).

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Brandon Jennings

Coach Skiles is tough. He's been my only coach in the NBA, so I'm used to it. His rules are a little different at times. At the end of the day, he just wants you to play hard defense, and you can't fault him for that.

Catullus

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

Todd Dillon

That would have been our fault - it comes down to that.

Rebecca H. Davis

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

Bob Hansmann

U.S. workers are a more cavalier about opening things. There's a high level of trust that IT is protecting them, or worse, they just don't think that it's their fault when something goes wrong.

Demetrius Serrano

When that happened I thought the game was over. I thought it was going to be my fault that we were going to lose the game.

Scottish Proverb

Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.

Robert H. Connelly

I winna blaw about mysel, as ill I like my faults to tell

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

Larry Sandburg

We've done that three times now. The only two loses we've had were the other two.

Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Edmond Rostand

I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!

Bob Dylan

When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.

Ani Difranco

TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.

Ally Carter

I'm someone who doesn't have anything to lose.

Paradorn Srichaphan

But it's OK to be ousted by Moya. It's happening, and I'm notcaring so much to loses in match.

Zoe Sugg

When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

Whitey Ford

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

Van Morrison

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Yayoi Kusama

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Yayoi Kusama

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

David Foster

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

Chris Capuano

That was a sloppy inning. Take it away, and maybe we win.

Alex Rodriguez

That will never end. Maybe when I retire it will stop. I use it as a motivation.

Randy Moss

I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm scared of the unknown future.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're scared of what you can't control

Greg Hawkins

I won't go to a doctor. I'm scared he'll tell me I can't wrestle.

Teresa Davis

I was getting a little scared there for a minute.

Allen McDonald

We're all scared this administration will single us out, the ones that are outspoken.

Dennys Reyes

I was so scared to see a doctor.

Mary Stewart

I was so scared I don't feel I have any entrails anymore.

Sergei Liakhovich

He said I'm scared of him, but I am scared of nobody.

Robert Gamez

He was scaring me there for a while.

Carmelo Anthony

They are scaring a whole lot of teams.

Zack Snyder

We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.

Ashley Tisdale

I'd love to do more action stuff, in the future.

Bill Budge

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

Bill Budge

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

Bill Burr

I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it.

Kelly Scott

We have to worry about the stuff in the refrigerator.

Christopher Sullivan

We've got stuff we've got to do now,

Albert Jr

When that kind of stuff happens, especially when you've never had anything, you don't really even know what it is.

Marisa Coughlan

You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago.

Gillian Armstrong

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

Elizabeth Warren

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Clay Fitch

We just couldn't get anything going in the third. We had the same kind of shots, but all of a sudden they weren't going down.

Rob Babcock

We can't get him unless he suddenly turns into a minimum-salary guy,

Harry Hamlin

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.

Dan Gorrell

I don't think Americans are telling us all of a sudden they want small. They are telling us they want more affordable.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Dick Cavett

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

Gemma Arterton

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

Cilla Black

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

Les Funtleyder

That was the first upside surprise for Merck in a long time.

John Milton

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, / Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

Michael Boulware

It didn't surprise me at all, ... It really didn't.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I thought it was very original, and I said, 'This should be a hit.' And it was. So I wasn't so much surprised as I was really pleased.

Bob Stoops

I think they're great. I don't know if that's a surprise to anybody.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Felipe Alou

I won't say surprised but I'm kind of disappointed.