Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

Decisions are made on a case-by-case basis in the best interest of the individual. So we need to look at how much rugby any given player has had since the beginning of the year, the amount of contact, their position, plus any injury history.

Jim Barlow

Bobby has continued to become more comfortable communicating with the guys in front of him, sorting out problems quickly and leading the defense. All of his teammates have a great amount of respect for him and listen to him when he has something to say.

James Nesbitt

Because I grew up with women, I have a certain amount of charm, and I'm all right to get on with, kind enough, funny enough, blah blah blah.

Cynthia Zea

Every time gets on the field she gets a little bit better. She has a huge amount of potential.

John Magaro

Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented.

Bill Bennett

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.

Ben Brantley

Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.

Judith Martin

Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

Jack Reynor

'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.

Cindy Johnson

They all came in cheerful, ... Our kids are loving school.

Robert Meyer

The ridiculousness of this whole thing is that when these songs came out, Michael Jackson was nine years old and for him to have a recollection of what was going on 30 years ago, it's absurd.

Jack Johnson

This is game we came here to play.

Mike Russell

This is an initiative that came directly from the carriers, not our safety division. We need to slow down.

Tim Short

This is huge for us. We came over (to Jacksonville) where people don't see us, don't know us, and we had a couple kids with the flu bug, but we still found a way to win.

Aaron Gray

This is a typical Big East game. Even this game came right down to the last shot. The guys did a good job fighting back. It's going to be like this day-in and day-out. There's no gimme wins in this conference.

Shelia Smith

This is the first time we didn't go one and out. We came out flat in the first half. I don't know if we were nervous. We can't play like that in the next round and expect to win.

Bill Guerin

This is not a public-relations stunt. We've put a lot of work into this proposal and this isn't something we came up with overnight. We felt that we had to do something. We're getting down to crunch time and since the league isn't doing anything, we felt like we'd better do something before the whole season goes down the tubes. We've waited long enough for them to try to step up.

Amanda Brown

This is really the most we can do from where we are. All of us that came here today felt like we should do something. We just wanted to help.

The Wizard

feel a certain sense of rejection and inadequacy. I was doing everything I was told to do. It couldn't all have been because I had the wrong lapel pin. I just felt like I couldn't get in. I could not make myself visible.

Ted Scambos

Feedbacks in the system are starting to take hold. The consecutive record-low extents make it pretty certain a long-term decline is under way.

Steve Francis

Everything is cool at my house. My daughter wasn't feeling well. As a man you have to do certain things and still be able to perform at your job.

Daniel Lipman

The response we've gotten and continue to get from certain elements of the gay community is just startling to me.

David Tom

There was a chance if it was real close to a certain area, they couldn't fix it. My nurse has the same problem, and they could fix her. But I was lucky. And it's 95 percent I'll never have another problem.

Herb Alpert

There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... Production wasn't as clean and neat as I'm hearing these days. They're not perfect, but they have an honest feeling, which is what I was going for.

Sam Phillips

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

John A. Logan

There's still a lot of skepticism about the SST, and it's not at all certain that Congress will pass a national tax law.

Eula Biss

There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Terry Goodson

I don't how to explain how I feel right now, I am pretty excited. The kids worked their butts off all week. They played four straight days and every day they have been at practice at 11:30 every day and worked for an hour and half. I am so proud of them. I think they wanted it more.

Hunter Hall

I just hope we make their weeks or their days or their months.

Sandra Navarro

His days of dictatorship are over. Justice will now prevail.

Oscar Wilde

I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in goal is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Paul McGinley

I played so well the first few days but Michael played well today. I couldn't get at him,

Tony Dobra

I'm kind of old school. We've already played 15 games, so I gave the girls eight days off. I always like to give my teams this time off to keep them fresh.

Harry Potter

I never think of myself as famous. As far as I'm concerned, I'm famous for two days a year which is the premieres,

Bill Baxter

In many ways, this is no different than the old days when you sat in your room late at night with a cassette tape recorder trying to hit pause and record at the same time.

Ozzie Guillen

I'm never going to forget this Opening Day. I've been in a lot of Opening Days in my life. But this was the most special. I've never been in an Opening Day like this one.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Mike Cooley

You know I have not seen people doing back flips about the fact that he's mountain biking. But I think we'll see a few more people getting into it. I know the governor has turned into quite a cyclist, and I think there are other people out there that will probably sample it now that the president has given it a go.

Keith Cooper

We couldn't get over the hump, but I liked the fact that after they got up 25, we battled back.

Mike Holt

He's never complained, and the fact he's never complained and said anything negative through this whole ordeal is inspiring.

Derek Smith

I don't like the fact that someone is in there playing dominoes with their friends while we're out there practicing. I didn't like the fact that they're in there sleeping on the rehab table while we're out there practicing, and then they just come out Friday because they think they're that good and they can come out and play.

John Bisio

I do not know for a fact that any plans have been made.

Michael Walsh

I do have some reason for optimism this year. The fact we've had a relatively mild spring bodes well for the season.

Gil Reyes

He was ready for the battle, but I think we'd be kidding ourselves if we totally ignored the fact that it's a 35-year-old body.

Robert Jackson

We are not unaware that we are not final because we are infallible; we know that we are infallible only because we are final.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Bobby Hitt

The new Z4s are not in the market yet. It will be sometime this spring.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

David Arquette

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

Dan Brown

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Aloe Blacc

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

Amanda Holden

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

Anne Carson

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

Thomas Jefferson

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

Robert Herjavec

The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action.

Robert Higgs

To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both.

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

John Taylor Gatto

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

Mason Cooley

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

George Jackson

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

Jeanette Winterson

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Jeaniene Frost

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood,

Bill Sienkiewicz

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube

Gordon B. Hinckley

I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine. Gordon B. Hinckley

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Hugh Prather

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Harry S Truman

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Immanuel Kant

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

J. K. Rowling

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

Ivan Pavlov

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

H. L. Mencken

I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.