Famous Quotes & Sayings

X. J. Kennedy

The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.

Isabella Bird

I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.

Ismail Kadare

I consider I've had a good day when, among the lines I've written, I've produced from my innermost core what I call 'the appearance of the pearl.' That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.

Giraldus Cambrensis

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

Yuri Milner

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

Virginia Postrel

Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.

Virginia Postrel

Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst.

Abraham Lincoln

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Ezra Taft Benson

The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.

Isambard K. Brunel

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

Ellen Key

On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.

Anthony Storr

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

Shannon Staub

My business New Year's resolution is to work as hard as I can to build bridges and better relationships with our municipalities. I figure that one is big enough to take the whole year.

Ernesto Butcher

When the bridge first opened, October 25, 1931, that first year, 5.5 million vehicles used the bridge. Last year 110 million vehicles used the bridge.

Anquan Boldin

We haven't really talked about it right now. There were a couple of suggestions thrown out, but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

Rick Mason

Just because a bridge has structural deficiencies doesn't mean it's unsafe. It merely means it's deteriorating.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Dan DiDio

We got the opportunity to work with Bryan Singer and they wanted to create a bridge between the original movie and this new one.

Anthony Sanfilippo

Those barges you've seen on Highway 90? They're our casinos.

Robert Ingersoll

You have no right to erect your toll-gate upon the highways of thought

Rick Warren

What you see from the highway will be brick. It's going to be a pretty building.

Gerry Reid

We're operating snowplows in St. John's 24 hours a day. I don't why we couldn't do that on the main highway in our province.

Fritz Todt

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

M. Thompson

I think they should reduce the tax. I realize they use the money for highways, but our highways will be this way when we're long gone.

Brian Riedl

Montana is getting more highway pork, but so is every other state.

Steve Finley

At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can't. You're stuck.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Ian Mckellen

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

Gloria Gaither

When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?

Clive Thompson

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Bryant McKinnie

That will make our line a lot better, especially having Birk back. Having (Hutchinson) next to me is going to make me a lot better.

Joseph Garcia

We could have had 50 points in the first half.

Curtis Shaw

We have a lot of Marriott points that we'll never be able to use.

Peter Jackson

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

Eric Sanders

You have to do that as a quarterback. You've got to go make that tackle and save some points on the board.

Gretchen Rubin

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.

Craig Conroy

Those are turning points in the game. We had two of them (5-on-3 power plays). Not to be able to capitalize, you know, that's been our problem up to this point.

Brad Shaw

We have to start believing. (Our standings points deficit) now seems manageable.

Jim Tressel

Yeah, it makes you uncomfortable because we're not 35 points better. It's still going to be about what we do.

Al Davis

We didn't score enough points with the firepower we have.

Jason Anderson

When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need.

Bill Janklow

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

Jack Ellis

But first and foremost, ... it's for transportation, and we know that rail is in Macon's future, just like it's in Macon's past, and we have to be ready for it.

Christopher Morley

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Anthony Quinn

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

John Thomas

The only one that will work is a rail system, but the routes need change.

Alan Cayetano

Mr. Chairman, let us not railroad this hearing.

Harry Wilson

Taxes don't seem to be the third rail they used to be.

Paul Samuelson

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Jim Struzzi

Fortunately, traffic was stopped, so no one was injured.

John Cobb

We want to impede traffic as little as possible.

Ryan Seacrest

What it allows me to do is . . . be the traffic cop.

Dick Martin

It's not like there are wrecks or anything like that. It's just that the traffic is not moving.

Aaron Edwards

You have customers, you have traffic in the area, you have familiarity.

Moby

Traffic terrifies me.

Bob Campbell

(Developers) don't see the traffic because it's not there yet. But it will be.

David Williams

Right now we have to do this for our residents and we have to do something to alleviate these traffic concerns.

Paul Morris

Right now, the traffic is all very democratic, ... You want to be able to prioritize.