Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Barnes

I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.

Terry McAuliffe

He'll be back as a United States senator, or he's back as chief justice because he can run again. Or he'll be back as governor,

Teju Cole

Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.

Larry Wall

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Robert Rossiter

Our company is fortunate to have in place, one of the strongest financial teams in the industry, including Jim, who previously served as Lear's chief financial officer and has more than 30 years of industry experience.

Petro Poroshenko

Preserving honor and dignity for me remains the chief value, more than any job.

Mary Murphy

Our mayor is a volunteer fireman, and our fire chief is a Lions member.

Lewis Altfest

If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what the chief executive officer had to say.

Chris McDonnell

I was a little disappointed in the position as I thought we could contend for the title. But we just didn't race like I thought we would.

Henry David Thoreau

Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men.

Ron Bamberger

It's a bittersweet experience. It's great to have a Derby contender named after you -- it will definitely put you on a high -- but knowing I am standing in the shoes of my friend takes the edge off a bit.

Steve McKinney

We were supposed to be contending for a playoff spot right now. Instead, we're contending for the No. 1 pick in the draft. Our fans are kind of frothing at the mouth over it.

Jim Williams

These dissidents contend that all the people in Leisure World are poor, downtrodden, sheepish people who can't protect themselves, ... But the truth of the matter is, a lot of people are just that way because they don't want to get involved. They want to retire in peace.

Alex Figert

This is a real crucial time for our team. It might determine if we contend for a playoff berth at the end of the season, so we just need to focus on getting as many points as possible.

Mark Kotsay

Even if he doesn't make any moves, the 25 guys in this room are suitable to contend for a championship,

Greg Martin

We had small pockets of weather to contend with in the Northeast and some wind at O'Hare, but overall we got off to a good start.

Mitch Kupchak

We don't want to wait four or five years to put (Bryant) in position to contend again. There is a little window there.

Terry Thompson

I think it makes a big difference, ... Especially going a distance and on fillies, it helps fillies out a lot.

B. R. Hayden

Hogs are extremely sensitive to hunting pressure, and they can move quite a distance in a short time. If hogs receive a lot of hunting pressure, they'll pick up and move, often a mile or two away. So when you have hogs on your property, all your neighbors soon will have hogs on their lands too, whether they want them or not.

Harry Shearer

I think it's the distance between what we're supposed to think their job entails and what their job really entails.

Steve Rice

It has been a long time since a shot putter has thrown that kind of distance for Lead-Deadwood.

Graham Motion

I think this is more this filly's deal. The distance is what she's going to appreciate. We got away with it last time because she was very fresh.

Sathya Baba

I am in You,You are in Me,There is no distance or distinction.

Mark Hagen

He has done some good things for us. We would like to see some more distance with his punting.

Mark Hagen

He has done some good things for us, ... We would like to see some more distance with his punting.

Rick Barnes

He did well going the distance because he did not even practice yesterday.

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Lumkile Mondi

The laws effectively require that white executives replace themselves.

William Crawford

We have executives running this city. We need to wait for a master plan to make a decision? It's part of my frustration.

Bill Cosby

Network executives never did understand what made our show work,

Lumkile Mondi

Such executives are unlikely to be willing to look at new ways of doing business.

Mike Cooke

I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here,

Howard Stern

I didn't listen to executives.

Joe Nathan

Over the last 18 months that this issue has developed, we have been talking with various IBM executives at many levels, and just had not gotten anywhere, ... We're frustrated.

Christopher Cox

Our purpose here today is to help investors keep an eye on how much of their money is being paid to the top executives who work for them. It is about wage clarity, not wage controls.

Alice Lowe

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Robert Sarver

I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.

Rejean Beauchemin

Just the fact that we?re playing this well right now with what we have, it?s really exciting. Hopefully we keep getting better and keep riding it into the playoffs.

Jane Harman

Just the fact that the Iranian government is making a lot of noise doesn't prove their capabilities.

Steve Martin

He?s already been to the show. I know the intimidation factor will be out of him.

Nicole Ohlde

I think it should be very exciting, the fact that we're young and can get out and run, the 24-second shot clock. We have to be kind of up-tempo so I think we're pretty geared towards that.

Chip Ganassi

It didn't make me happy by any sense, but the fact of the matter is if we were doing a better job, if we were winning races, it probably wouldn't have happened.

Dan Reynolds

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

Mark Richt

I would say you're running it up if you've got your first-team players in the game with five minutes to go and you're up by 40. If you're still throwing bombs, maybe that's running it up. I think it's the defense's job to slow people down anyway.

Don Waddell

Just think we're going to have this player for the next five years.

Ken Valiska

Jose has got phenomenal skills. He's got great moves with the ball, a really quick shot, he'll probably be one of our top five starters. I've been very impressed by him. He's a great player with a great attitude.

Peter Donovan

He was a full-time mortgage-broker and poker was a pursuit. He was doing about four or five hours a week, just like we would play tennis or watch TV.

Bruce Bochy

He knows what he's doing out there. He competes well. He's really gotten so much better in his last five or six starts.

Kenny Brown

Groom should have wrestled for third, but gave up five points in the last period and lost.

Darren McCarty

Guys are always banged up. Guys are always playing with something, if not five or six things. It's just a way of life.

Pat Riley

He's a great player. He's one of the top five guys in the league.

Robert Buchanan

Clearly, Wal-Mart's fortunes over the next 12 to 18 months hinge on the quality of the job that Eduardo Castro- Wright does. He is the man on the hot seat.

Frank Darabont

It's been a great run of good fortune for me as a writer.

Quintilian

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Marcus Aurelius

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Leon Battista Alberti

As ability goes, so goes our fortune.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

John Dryden

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

Jim Rohn

Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

Jim Rohn

You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.

David Stanley

He didn't go over to that guy's house for a confrontation, he just wanted to know what was going on.

Jerry Shuster

He (O'Connor) can't be indiscriminate. He can't tear down a house here and tear down a house there, because then it looks like it's more for show. But if they can do three, even though they need 30 taken down, if those three are strategic, it's a tremendous plus.

Mike Moore

We take it from the house and turn it into what you see here.

Robert Hoehn

I think by the end of next week they'll be cheaper. We'll get through some House legislation yet.

Ruth Rendell

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

Robert Sweeney

I was just sitting there watching t.v., and it sounded like the whole house shook.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

Tori Amos

I like cosy, intimate houses.

Willa Ford

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Woody Allen

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Woody Allen

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

William Whewell

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Wordsworth

Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

William Shenstone

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

R. Robinson

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Yancy Butler

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

John Walker Lindh

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

Nate Parker

It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

John Baldacci

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

Jon Voight

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

Newt Gingrich

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

Elizabeth Warren

I'm proud of my Native American heritage,

Norman Foster

I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.

Alan Woods

With nowhere to smoke in the pub or the office, smokers are nipping outside for a cigarette.

Tom Jefferson

The runaway 100 percent effectiveness that's touted by proponents was nowhere to be seen.

Randy Cunneyworth

We have nowhere to go but up at this point.

Jack Falahee

If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.

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.

Brandon McArthur

The series isn't over. Tomorrow is another day.

Scott Hatteberg

The whole series was tough. When I look back on things, yeah, I wish they were different.

Jack Miller

This is the first in a series of meetings.

Rahul Dravid

The way we've won this series is heartening.

Friedrich Schiller

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Novalis

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .

Eric Ries

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Ovid

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Pat Buchanan

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Paul Burns

We have the same sun and soil as Amador and much of El Dorado.

Billy Graham

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

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.

Jeffrey Smith

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