Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Cheney

proud to be here this afternoon to be one of the first members of the federal family to welcome you to Washington.

Carl Honore

We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?

Royce Chadwick

First I want to say 'thank you' to all the fans. It was a great crowd. It was a Sunday afternoon with clear weather and they came out to watch us and these seniors. I'm grateful. We did the best that we could do.

Michael Arcuri

Friday afternoon is usually not the best time to get people's attention.

Edward Jackson

From what I've been told, it appears the child was lying down on the seat so she couldn't be seen. Normally, a driver would check over a vehicle when returning it to the depot but because this vehicle was being used on the same route in the afternoon it was not checked.

Martha Gellhorn

From two o'clock one afternoon until the ship docked in England again the next evening at seven, none of the medical personnel stopped work.

Michael Boyd

If the flight is tomorrow, and this afternoon you make the change, you can make that argument ... But if the flight is three weeks from now, that's a pretty weak argument.

Harry Harnish

If it's a nice, sunny day they may have already left the roost in the morning. In the afternoon they may not come back to the roost until 5:30 or so.

Miguel Jimenez

I would have preferred to have finished this afternoon and have half an hour extra in bed in the morning, that is the best half an hour always.

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

Joe Thompson

As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking for some spark to get our emotion going and allow us to compete, ... We just made too many mistakes, and you can't do that against a team like this. You have to be able to play at a high energy level and with hope, and we couldn't get anything going to give us that hope.

Rhonda Rompola

Our slow start in the first half hurt us. We dug ourselves a hole against a very, very good team.

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Ryan Crawford

Our entire front row is (6-foot-2 or taller), and we put up a huge block against everybody. Most of the time when we block right, they're not going to be able to get it over with authority. It's going to be a roll shot or a tip to the corner. You've got to have guys back there who are on the same page and ready to get the ball back to the setter.

Mako

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

Steve Nelson

Of course, the Super Bowl was a huge disappointment. We were one game away from winning the world championship. The way we played against Chicago was embarrassing.

Wim Duisenberg

Of most concern are some of the uncertainties that will inevitably arise as the result of the move to stage three. Against this background, the council has chosen a distinct monetary policy strategy and one that reflects the circumstances it faces at present.

Dwyane Wade

No question, this is one of the best games we've played thus far this year, especially playing against a team that's been playing exceptionally well of late. We would like to see more of this. And I think we're getting there.

Donald Knuth

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.

Lindy Ruff

It would be tough to stand here and explain to you guys how they had our number if we had lost tonight.

Alfred Rock

It was a once-in-a-lifetime moment. I really can't explain it. It was crazy.

Day One

Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I guess I will have to find another hospital.

Janet Reno

I explained I was leaving the matter in Mr. Ashcroft's hands.

Lewis Carroll

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, because I'm not myself, you see

Yelena Isinbayeva

I can't explain my feelings, I love the run-up and the stadium here.

Chuck Davis

I can't explain it. We've been through a lot together. I'm just proud of those guys.

Hugh Godsey

I can't explain it. We played with a lot of heart.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Max Cleland

Deployments have increased some 300 percent, and the military has been decreased by a third: Hello, good morning -- you can't keep that up forever, ... Sooner or later you're going to get people stressed out, spread too thin around the world, and they just won't put up with it anymore.

John Feehery

Denny is good at picking up the pieces. He is a very soothing influence. At the end of the day, I think people will be looking to Denny for leadership.

Bill Walsh

Dennis Green is as good as they get,

Randy Martin

DeMorius had a good night and Markie had some good, tough runs on second effort.

Tony Russa

Any way you slice it, he was outstanding. There were several times when there was some serious thump at the plate and he made good pitches.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Ben Crane

Get it? I'm the one who started the joke! I was walking down the last fairway with Kenny Perry , and it had been a long day, and I go, 'You knew I was slow, but you didn't know I was nine hours slow!' At first he was just flummoxed. But then he said, 'Don't sell yourself short. You weren't slow today.' I went, 'Thank you.'

Michael Brown

Maybe I should have screamed 12 hours earlier.

Nikki Sixx

I think that music is a lifestyle that you sort of intravenously plug into and unplug from when you do and don't need it. Some people live it 10 hours a day, some on weekends. It's no more important or non-important than that.

John Green

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

Marisa Tomei

I'm a person who has to eat! I graze every few hours.

Keith Olbermann

As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.

Nicholas Culpeper

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

Leonardo da Vinci

I have wasted my hours.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Aphra Behn

Dear me no Dears, Sir ...

Eliphas Levi

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

Clive Barker

A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Miguel de Cervantes

A good name is better than bags of gold.

Marie de France

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Let me guess. The big one is due in on the north shore? (Dante) Yes. So let’s make this quick. I have a board, a wave, and a babe with my name on them and I would like to take advantage of all three. (Savitar)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Philippe Lopez

There's no reason we can't be in the top 20.

Irwin Schiff

There's no reason to put me in jail.

Ringo Starr

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

Sophocles

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophie Swetchine

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

Stephenie Meyer

The only reason I left was to protect you.

Tommy Wiseau

The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

Seth Godin

The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Alicia Silverstone

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Andy Stanley

You won't take risk without courage.

Sumner Redstone

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

Michael Eisner

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

Seamus Heaney

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

Michael Porter

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

Sherilyn Fenn

I like taking risks and I decided to put every bit of me into the role.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

David Peel

We couldn't give it away or sell it. We didn't have permits.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Martin Edwards

We'll talk about it when we get back to the jail,

Anthony DeCurtis

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

Andy Stanley

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Steven Soderbergh

Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.