Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Rogers

I was looking at the stats (from 2004). And there were an awful lot of kills we're going to need to get elsewhere now.

Teju Cole

I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out.

Richard Aboulafia

Keeping costs down and getting close to the customer makes an awful lot of sense when the revenue environment is flattening.

Spencer Abraham

Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.

Joe Evans

I think it's awful that because of a personal conflict, Mr. Spinks thinks it's necessary to do something that may have the effect of disrupting the whole festival and the whole county loses.

David Kennedy

It could be false, but an awful lot of it gels. Unless the guy's been much more surreptitious than these guys usually are, it's probable that law enforcement is on his trail.

Joseph J. Lhota

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

Dave Odom

To get back here and play in the world's greatest arena, this late in the season, for a university and a team who have a great deal of pride, it means an awful lot.

Martin Tobias

I think we found out an awful lot last week. We've got a group of kids who don't have any quit in them. They played hard.

Shane Warne

I wouldn't be prepared to say that. It would have been very nice to see Shane captain, and where he's had a chance to captain the side he's done very well.

I. Stone

Kathy Wooley played big for us, tremendous. Then her back started hurting and she just couldn't go any more. Talk about a warrior. She's a team captain and I can't say enough about how she played the middle for us.

William Cowper

John Gilpin was a citizen / Of credit and renown, / A train-band captain eke was he / Of famous London town.

Mike Richards

I think it hits everyone hard when you lose the captain of your team. He's worked so hard to come back, to have his season cut short, you feel for him. To have a guy like that go out of your locker room is pretty tough.

Michael Vaughan

He was a great player, captain of his country, and he's the king of the microphone.

Todd Cheney

He was a captain and the type of kid you wanted to have as the face of your program.

Mike Adams

He wanted me to be more vocal, ... I've got to be a captain out there. I've got to take control.

Marc Jones

Harris was trying to stand up for a teammate, as a good captain does. He's been a great leader for us, and we missed his presence on the field.

Ty Gorman

Having three captains on a cross country team is rare. But that's a sign of how strong our leadership is this year.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Dana Brunetti

When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'

Dani Shapiro

I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.

Mike Huckabee

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

William Manchester

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

William Whipple

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

James Hansen

I really think the Navy is wrong on this one.

Charles Smith

The Navy said they ran out of time. All procurement things are supposed to be done by Dec. 30.

Michael Jasny

It's time for the Navy to stop this needless infliction of harm.

Patrick O'Brian

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Frank B. Kellogg

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

Frank B. Kellogg

France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.

Alan Shepard

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Jason Phillips

He catches everything in the outfield, and he throws people out. He's good. Real good.

Jim Pattison

What I like most about an aquarium is that all ages, from toddlers to pre-schoolers to retired grandparents, can really enjoy the wonders of the sea.

Sacheen Littlefeather

I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.

Michael Jordan

I'm retired 99.9%. Of course, there always is that .1%.

Ray LaHood

He's like a retired prince, ... He doesn't have to rush.

Billy Graham

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

Sue Allen

We have a lot of retired women. We all keep pretty busy.

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Scott Clavenna

In general, to have a whole solution like that from a single vendor is really valuable.

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Keith Ashdown

You can't single him out. It is standard procedure.

David Neumann

It will probably stretch out, because we'll be doing a single shift, through mid-May.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Rocco Buttiglione

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Alexander McQueen

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

Alexander McQueen

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.