Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanna Lumley

I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.

Dan Brown

I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.

Frank Bruno

Just recently I got a request for a proclamation in Volusia County for a gentleman that became 80 years old, ... That is not appropriate because you are proclaiming the day because that person is 80 years old. So I sent a letter instead.

Mark Badgley

I think it just became too formula, ... Everybody looked the same. Certainly women have to dress very practically by day now, so I think they really love the idea of indulging themselves in dressing up for night.

Randy Levine

I think it became obviously clear that no matter under what analysis, this deal is a good deal for taxpayers.

Zulima Farber

I think it became a big case only because of the names involved. I think it would have been a routine -- if there is such a thing -- illegal gambling case if it wasn't for the names of those people involved. However, because there was a trooper involved, it was big to us.

Courtney Pratt

It became pretty clear we weren't going to get any kind of wage concessions from our labour union,

Gordon Huether

It became pretty clear to me the place to expand it was where the population is.

Daisy Ridley

It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

Aaron Johnson

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

Tim Thomas

I was looking forward to showing some character by giving a good effort all the way to the end of the year. I thought there was a good chance that maybe we could end the season with a win and feel good about ourselves. But it wasn't to be.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Buck Showalter

Kevin made good pitches when he had to, but it took a lot out of him. It was a tribute to him that he was able to get through it for five innings and give us a chance there.

Jeff Boogaart

Jacob is a good, young kid. He's got a chance to be real good for us. ...He needs to get a little tougher, and little more physical, but he does a good job with the ball.

Alexander Veshnyakov

I would say that as of today the chance of a second round is fairly high.

Floyd Ciruli

I would say that the 7th right now is clearly the nation's most competitive seat, with the Democrats having a clear chance to win it.

Alan Trammel

Just to even say there's a possibility, wow. But I'd have to say chances are we're going to have to make an adjustment.

Gary Waters

JR is in great spirits it's just something that we're just going to have to let heal. It happened where he just planted the wrong way and it just cracked on him.

Hank Azaria

The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

Agnes Mille

...then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open

David Ader

The legacy of this week will be of a market that's cracked even before it gets the weight of supply and anticipated strong January data.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

Charles Crawford

She went into the ditch to keep from hitting people, ... She's got a cracked vertebrae, but she's going to be fine. She's just a little skinned up.

Steve Hofstetter

I don't think I ever cracked up as much in my life as I did during my stepfather's funeral service and burial. All we could do to prevent crying was to laugh throughout it. Laughter is very powerful. It's something that can't be underestimated.

Gary Graves

I think the school's test scores that I've seen in the papers recently show that this new math thing really isn't what it was cracked up to be. It should be revisited.

Rick Majerus

That ACC is everything it is pretty much cracked up to be, in terms of talent, coaching, venues that you play in, fan enthusiasm and degree of difficulty in terms of winning on the road. And I would say the same thing with the Big Ten.

Mariella Frostrup

I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.

Marty Booker

I don't know anything about the diva thing. To play receiver in this league, sometimes you have to be demanding and selfish.

Tipper Gore

This is a national tragedy and a public health problem demanding national leadership.

David Payne

They still say it's a very demanding test, and it is.

Greg Robinson

Football is a tough, demanding game. If you can't laugh a little, it can really wear on you. If I didn't laugh, I'd cry. You've got to be able to enjoy what you're doing. Whenever you can find a moment to lighten up a little, it's good. Our players are understanding how to do that.

Brad Holmes

It's a horse - vocally, it's quite demanding - but it's not out of their league.

Buzz Hargrove

They're demanding major outsourcing of our jobs, not because they need it but because they think they can make them somewhere else cheaper.

Wayne Levi

It's a tough, demanding layout and the greens are really slick. Some of the amateurs aren't used to putting on greens this quick, so it takes a little getting used to.

Roger Bannister

I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.

Don King

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

Margaret Levens

Just to watch the smile on his face when a chopper flew over. He died doing what he wanted. That was his passion and I know he was happy.

Michael Arrington

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.

Nadrine Stocker

I think it may have just been stress. My grandmother died on Feb. 9 the year before and I was thinking about that and it may have triggered the labor.

Pat Lewis

I always come on the holidays. We're like family. And Easter is a time of family gathering. God gave us his only son to show us he was our living savior. His son died for our sins and rose again, and that's really important. It's a day to give thanks to God.

Craig Reid

He'd been ill for about a year. He was a heavy drinker and smoker and he had problems with his heart. He was wasting away. By the end, it was a relief because he was in so much pain and he was so weak. He died in the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and we were all there.

Suzanne Fields

The rains in Washington on the day that Pope John Paul II died were unusually ferocious, as if the heavens were weeping with uncontrollable sadness.

Jeff Phillips

He fought for that until the day he died and would still be fighting that.

David Garza

Part of me died when he died. You've got a 17-year-old who went to his grave for something he did not do. Texas murdered an innocent person.

Gary Powers

He is so strong, and that was evident that last home run. He got jammed on the pitch and was strong enough to pull it out of the ballpark. That is good, hard work getting rewarded right there.

Tom Powers

Here it is evident that the money we are spending is supporting rescue efforts.

Michael Leavitt

I think it's evident it's in the thousands.

Jim Schoenfeld

To come back from two goals down on the road showed tremendous character. It's pretty evident that a lot of hard work they put in conditioning paid off. It wasn't picture perfect, but there was a lot of heart in that victory.

Mike Hoffman

He had a solid preseason, ... Teams got to see what he can do. It's evident by all the teams that have called. He just needs to be polished a little.

Ben Edwards

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.

Grace King

Nonprofit organizations are at work every day in our communities, and their work is evident in the people they are serving.

Mike Thomas

From all the people I talked to and from the time I spent with him, it was very evident he could get it done on the recruiting end, even knowing we had a short window.

Caryn Jarocki

She does a lot of things on the floor that might not only be scoring. She's our team leader, she keeps the kids together, she helps them, she makes great passes. She does some solid things that might not be so evident when she's not scoring. But to me it's evident.

Charlie Hunnam

I think we all kind of thought those would be the most fun, the fight scenes. And they were the most challenging. Physically exhausting and complicated and kind of very specific and intricate, so they just took a long time to film. I think that we all thought that we'd get to set, have a punch up and we'd get it on film and be wrapped, but it wasn't quite like that.

Martin Winterkorn

It is important to exhaust the potential of existing markets. But it is equally important to open up new markets.

Robert Jordan

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

Rick Carlisle

Part of the problem was that Jermaine was sick (Monday) and he was really exhausted in the first half. I know his physical situation contributed to some of his struggles. We just didn't have the luxury of sitting him much tonight.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

Troy Brown

That last five, six minutes of the game, we just figured they were exhausted and that's why they didn't go no-huddle. We saw they couldn't run the two-minute offense, and the only reason they didn't, we thought, was because they were exhausted.

Eugene Fidell

It's to have an exhaustive look at the matter, not only from the standpoint of potentially assigning responsibility but finding out what happened and making recommendations of a systemic nature so that it doesn't happen again.

Nelson Peltz

My kids are exhausted every day, and I keep them that way. It's gym, ice, homework. They're too tired to get in trouble.

Kerry Condon

I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.

David Winters

Having less exposure to the U.S. is the key.

John Sherman

Here's this quiet kid who got some quick exposure ... very quick exposure.

Bill Self

Today couldn't have been scripted much better for Kansas. This did a lot for our program from an exposure standpoint. Playing well was icing on the cake.

Corey Rollerson

I just thought it was time to get one going for the girls. We're trying to get some scouts to come in and see these girls. I just wanted to get exposure for the area.

Mark Owens

I'll sing in front of 10 people, I'll sing in front of 2,500 people. It's exposure and it's fun.

Marianne Williamson

I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.

J. M. Roberts

It's been a good exposure for them to see the process and see the show.

Brian Ross

It's an interesting concept. I don't see it as a threat at all. The plus side is that it will reach people who can't come to the theater. In the end, it will mean new exposure for this smaller product.

Raul Ramirez

It opened my mind to law enforcement that I hadn't seen before because I had limited exposure to law enforcement growing up, ... That was the motivation that put me in that direction.

Gunnar Lindstrom

It (hydrogen fuel cells) needs a major breakthrough in technology.

Ricky Craven

If we come into the race with the idea that we have to do everything we can to save fuel, there will be 36 cautions and fuel will be irrelevant,

Robert Mills

I am losing $2,600 a week on fuel that used to go toward my profit,

David Cummings

He has to be seen to be doing something and I think removing the GST on fuel excise, which is a tax on a tax, is a tangible way to show the Government cares.

Richard Baxter

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Veerappa Moily

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Willie Nelson

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

Katsuaki Watanabe

In the United States people are getting more fuel conscious,

Roger Price

In the whole scheme of things, it's not that big of a deal. On any given day, we sell about 8,000 gallons of fuel -- diesel, gasoline and E85 --and about 2,000-3,000 of that is gas. Of that, about 300 gallons is E85. So, it's a lot to me, but probably not a lot to you.

Stephen Campbell

Kentucky has a rich history, and we want to do our small part to preserve it for future generations.

Christopher Shays

Katrina taught us the hard lesson that, as we prepare for future emergencies, it's important we include in our plans ways to protect our pet owners and their pets.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Douglas Coupland

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

George P. Shultz

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Thomas Piketty

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Q'orianka Kilcher

Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.

Ron Holt

We're not worried about the size meeting the needs now and well into the future.

Sprague Grayden

I was lucky I was raised by parents who gave me a lot of sense of self and a lot of confidence in myself.

Jim Calhoun

Kentucky gave us a great shot, but we're going to D.C..

Joseph Zadroga

James gave his life for the city, for this country.

Joyce Majewski

Just look at this watch someone gave to me.

Vin Abene

Jon pitched well. He gave up a two-run homer in the first but he settled down after that and kept us in the game.

Jason Calabrese

Joel gave another strong performance, of which there were many in the two seasons he played for me.

Joe DeSantis

John is the kind of player who can give us something positive or something negative. Tonight he gave something very positive.

Ken Lucas

I think in the long run it will prove to be a good thing for the team and myself that we gave it a week off and let it heal. I hate to miss any game, but I think it was the right thing to do.

Greg Paulus

I actually thought they gave us the timeout. But I'll take J.J. at the line any time.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Robert Reed

Katrina, in some sense, helped that process be a little quicker.

Joseph Beaulieu

Having that backlog helped IBM through the worst part of the recession.

Chris McConnon

Having three lines has helped us out a lot." ()

Marco Coleman

I thought we'd get at least 12 wins, so I'm not too surprised. It's more of a surprise about other teams that have lost that I thought would be better, which helped us out.

Bernie Bickerstaff

I think we played well. Our small lineup really helped us.

Paul Wagner

It helped that I knew Gail's story. If her Web page had just said, 'I need a kidney,' it wouldn't have pulled me in.

H. Hunt

It helped strengthen him at a young age, ... It was tough, but it only made us stronger.

David Allen

the first 15 laps were pretty scary today.

Caroline Hallisey

You want to get off the line and get in your position in the 1,000, but it's not like you only have 4 1/2 laps to get it done like in the 500.

Murray Walker

This is lap 54 - after that it's 55, 56, 57, 58...

Naomi Shihab Nye

We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.

Alan Gustafson

Around lap 80 or 100 was the first time we led, and I thought we were looking pretty good.

John Keats

Asleep in lap of legends old.

Oveta Culp Hobby

Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.

Jon Stewart

How refreshing. A suspect beaten up BEFORE the LAPD showed up.

Johannes Ullrich

This laptop will infect your systems from the inside.

David Allen

the first 15 laps were pretty scary today.

Caroline Hallisey

You want to get off the line and get in your position in the 1,000, but it's not like you only have 4 1/2 laps to get it done like in the 500.

Michael Andretti

I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.

Jeff Gordon

We know that after Richmond (the 26th race) comes, we've got to be in the top-10 and when we are, we'd better be set on 'kill' to go out there and lead laps and win races.

Kyle Busch

With about 40 laps to go, it's time to race and time to get after it and that's what I was doing. If I did something and aggravated Stewart, well, I'm sorry.

Fong Piau

Needless to say, the potential in Jakarta is immense.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Derian Hatcher

The pace we're on, sure, anything could happen.

Richard Ford

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

Doug Tumen

If you run every day at race pace you're going to get hurt.

Hugh Morris

If you have raw pace everything else can be worked on,

Margaret Beckett

Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.

John Flanagan

Erak. The one they call the Oberjarl," the Arridi answered him. Impulsively, Axl took a pace forward, raising his ax threateningly. You'll have to go through the rest of us to take him!" he shouted defiantly. Well done, Axl," he said. "You've just told them I'm here.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.

Edwin Way Teale

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Sarah Howard

It was weird. I had no idea where I was or what kind of pace I was swimming.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Jim Bowden

I think you have to plan that he will not be back this year and be pleasantly surprised if he is.

Scott Cowen

I think we have to have a very comprehensive plan to rebuild the city,

Juli Lax

I think we're up to Plan K right now.

Michael Barrett

There are no plans to do any of this, but we're monitoring the situation closely.

Fred Williams

I ain't got no plane money. I just stayed... this is all I got right here.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Tricia Helfer

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Vinton Cerf

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Seimone Augustus

I really don't understand how a men's and women's program wouldn't get along. It's like brotherhood and sisterhood with us.

J. C. Watts

Their program is relatively expensive, but a lot of it is conditional. We don't know what they're going to cut.

Gary Buehler

The generic-drug program is very important to the F.D.A..

Jason Maxiell

It was a big mistake, ... Now she's done that, that program is going to struggle.

Seimone Augustus

It's kind of the same situation. The only thing that's different is I think we already have a solid program here.

Kenneth Williams

The program is already funded. Everything is in place.

Pamela Anderson

I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.

Ken Thompson

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

Billy Corgan

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

Jenna Marbles

Before I go to work, I like to pump myself up by crying over my master's degree.

Ryan Diggs

We were all pumped up at the start of overtime. I thought we had the momentum. I was never nervous.

Andrew Cooper

We feel it would be inappropriate for us to race.

Alex Jones

Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

Keith Williams

I thought the races would be a little closer,

Greg Gilchrist

I want to win this race really badly,

Allison Duncan

I don't know that there is any more urgency now that Erin has run a Busch race,

Sarah McCune

I don't know what happened. It's not the way you want any race to go, especially when you're leading." ()

Rebecca West

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

William J. Clinton

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

Valentino Rossi

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

Willie Randolph

It could be someone else toward the end of the season who could be the swing guy.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Walter Savage Landor

Falsehood is for a season.

Kelly Rowan

In the first season, (Kirsten) seemed really together, but there's this undercurrent of 'something's got to be up.' And (last) season you got to see kind of the underbelly of her,

Jose Guillen

I'm pretty sure if we lost, the season was done.

Flip Saunders

I'm sure they will want to get a win and split the season series. We'll want to be competitive, and stay sharp.

John Abraham

I'm in shape, I've been working since the season was over with,

Steve Owens

It may be that we simply go from one high-pollution season to another.

Bruce Pearl

All season we've talked about getting better. I thought we got better in the first half, but in the second half, we didn't. How much that is a setback, I don't know.

Dustin Hermanson

The first series we didn't have a whole lot of opportunities.

Bernie Williams

The World Series and the postseason is a thing you've got to go with the flow. In the World Series, you let it all out.

Alex Barron

They've kind of turned this series into what the IRL didn't want to happen,

Douglas Adams

I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

Aileen Anderson

This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical.

Christy Romano

Developing a series is a next step for me.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Ron Wilson

Special teams in this series will be big.

Ziggy Marley

I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.

Nhat Hanh

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Gayle Forman

When the sun shines, you let it shine on you

David Gower

As they say the sun shines on the righteous.

Stephen King

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.

Myrtle Reed

Somewhere on this great world the sun is always shining, and it will sometimes shine on you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Gary Barnett

I think I said the wrong thing, the wrong way and at the wrong time,

William Anderson

has the right intentions, but he's going about them the wrong way.

Hank Tierney

He said he just didn't want to play. He was out there for all the wrong reasons.

Anthony Ricco

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy, ... Nothing is wrong with me. I'm not sick. I'm healthy.

Tom Davies

investigate aggressively what went wrong and what went right.

Norton Juster

There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

Richard Carey

was in the wrong place in the wrong time.

Tim Purpura

Nothing was wrong with the elbow, but it just didn't feel right, ... There were times when it just didn't feel right.