Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

David Brinkley

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

Bear Grylls

Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.

Deb Caletti

Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it so enticingly that you wouldn't notice that it had things attached - heavy things, things like pity and need, that were weighty as anchors and iron beams and just as impossible to get out from underneath.

Tony Iorio

We've always partnered with the schools. They are the anchors of the community.

Mark Calvert

We're looking for this to be a world class destination resort. We have not made a decision yet as to which casino operator will be the best anchor for the overall project.

Jenny Potter

We've used some money to get a dog carrier for Beans and also a leash and collar with the Marine Corps eagle, globe and anchor emblem on them.

Zeke Grader

Year in, year out, salmon is the one that they depend upon. It's their anchor fishery.

William Falconer

The most ancient anchors are laid to have been of stone, and sometimes of wood, to which a great quantity of lead was usually fixed.

Chita Rivera

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Audrey Hepburn

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.

Laurent Brancowitz

To me, the idea of living this lifestyle is so boring that I would prefer to read Marcel Proust the whole time during a tour.

Todd Campbell

A lot of tech stocks that were 'Steady Eddies' were not subject to hype. They were boring stocks. But those stocks had strong top- and bottom-line growth.

Fred Droes

It's not illegal to drive round and round, but it gets pretty boring after two or three times.

David Archuleta

It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.

Jim Fisher

It's a boring stock; its growth days are behind. Microsoft coming out with a new operating system doesn't generate the excitement it used to.

Ron Gardenhire

It's a boring kind of thing, really. I think common sense pretty much tells you where it is.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

Chris Hernandez

The only reason I think about it is that you guys (reporters) bring it up. It's worse if you think about it, so I try not to.

Greg Wilkins

We are pleased to reach this significant milestone. The powerful combination of these companies will bring the assets, people and projects together to deliver value to all stakeholders.

Rod Thorn

We are pleased to bring Cliff back. He is a seasoned player who defends well in the low post and can also step outside to make a three-point shot.

Ed Huydic

We started to bring our four and our five players out to be distributors instead of keeping them on the inside because (Ridgefield) stretched their zone so well and we were really having trouble with the passing angles.

Bobby Jackson

We started this really for race relations, to bring people together from all races and to show that people can get along. Before the race we brought about this heritage house to promote unity.

Melissa Gregory

We started talking via e-mail for a couple of months. Then we decided to bring him over for a tryout. From the first time we skated together, we just knew.

Stu Walters

We struggle offensively. Defense is what keeps us around. Senior forward Evan Walker brings it every night defensively, he works his butt off. All our guys do.

Andrew Pantano

We are a full-service caterer that will bring everything to an event from the food to the tables, the liquor, decorations and of course a professional staff.

Rob Sheffield

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

Scott Bakula

Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as 'Scott Bakoola.' Not a good sign. I also didn't get the show.

Steve Elkington

It's a shame the crowds didn't get to see the finish, and CBS on TV. I know I would have liked to have been watching. I had a front seat.

Bob Vila

It's more expensive, but in Florida, it will give CBS construction a run for its money.

Mark Feldstein

It's about the trajectory, ... CBS used to be the Tiffany network, dominant in all respects, while Fox is on a roll and seemed to come out of nowhere.

Fred Moran

Radio is the real wild card. It remains to be seen how CBS performs without Howard Stern.

Les Moonves

This is a proud moment for all of us who love the CBS name, and who know the storied history of CBS Radio.

Stephen Vinson

You have to think about it. CBS plays that commercial like every day. I'm trying to get excited about this tournament. But every time I try to watch something about it, that commercial is on there.

Sean McManus

There should be at any time at any network a small group of people who ... can fill in the (anchor) job quite admirably, but we quite honestly are not in that situation at CBS news.

Anthony Zinni

There are certainly generals out there who don't like me speaking out.

John Abizaid

There are certainly considerations that we must make with regard to the level of the forces,

Kevin Morooney

There are certainly a lot of things that we can shore up for Altoona. Williamsport gave us the competition we were looking for.

David Nussbaum

There are certainly a lot of creative entrepreneurial companies in New York,

Dean Owens

We stressed to the kids the right way to do things. We talked about the negative effects and why you don?t want to do steroids. It?s cheating -- and certainly not a way to improve yourself.

Drew Rosenhaus

We're in a legal proceeding with the players' association and the Eagles and the management council. We hope it doesn't come to that. I certainly hope, as a result of this, we'll hear from the Eagles and they'll welcome him back.

Ed Bond

Where lands would be compatible and appropriate, we'd certainly look at those. The program makes sense from Sierra Pacific's standpoint.

Luca Parmitano

It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk.

Lesli Linka Glatter

Film schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where do they go? They certainly aren't being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

Milan Hejduk

We always have a chance to win every night. I'm looking forward to the upcoming season and this new NHL era.

Louis Sachar

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Chad Hurley

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

Lee Scott

The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

Heather Williams

The point of it is to get people to sign it. We really want to give individuals their chance to voice their support.

Jose Gonzalez

We are probably in better shape than we were last year, ... Our chances to go all the way are very good. Right now, I don't think there isn't a way we can't make it to the playoffs and hopefully the finals.

Joe Toy

We've already hit some plateaus in the last few months, and in 2006 we are going to see things moderating. But even with that, hotels are going to be full and there will be a good chance of a record year in room numbers.

Wayne Rooney

We've a better chance than last season, said Sir Alex.

Todd Burns

With this type of damage, it looks like some houses will be (without power) into the late evening before we can get to them.

Karen Dawson

We've tried to make the evening informative and fun too.

Beverly Sills

Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

Emilie Mims

We're expecting a very exciting evening with our Governor here. It's not everyday that we have our Governor as our keynote speaker. We're very pleased and very interested in what he has to say.

Nile Easton

A lot of times you get people rushing home. People aren't so much in a hurry to get to work, but they are to get home. If we have those evening snowstorms, that's where we see lots of accidents.

Zach Duke

This game has a way of evening things out. Our time will come.

Summers Montgomery

This evening was a solid performance from everybody. We started a little sluggish in the first game, missing seven serves. But from there, we got going and I was able to get some younger players in tonight.

Stella McCartney

It's not like evening wear, ... It's just kind of 'easy wear.' It's more like take one incredibly stunning thing and put it with a pair of jeans. I just think personally that's what I would do.

Jason King

For many women, getting ready to go out is a ritual not to be rushed, with a third of women luxuriating for over an hour to prepare for an evening out - and most aren't off to the Oscars.

Audre Lorde

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

Mark Thompson

The outcome of the incident is pretty severe and it's tragic that (White's) getting screws in his face and plates, and you put a guy in hospital like that, I'm sure he's feeling about that. We want him to play really competitive hard footy on the weekend too.

Jonathan Klein

The people you're friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on Twitter are trusted sources of information.

William Gray

We are going to see the return of some of these types of storms. People have to face up to it. The insurance industry has a major problem.

Scott Hand

Where Inco has operations, it has legacies, and we are going to have to face up to them in a proper and responsible way,

Luke Nosek

I have realised more and more that great companies, founded for a long-term purpose, such as Google or Facebook or SpaceX, may do more good in the world than any other vehicle that we have.

Bertolt Brecht

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Carolyn Porco

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,

Carolyn Wells

Circumstances alter faces.

John Galliano

The perfume is sweet, like the girl, and is young and a fresh reinvention of Miss Dior.

Bertolt Brecht

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

Terri Cash

When (Foster) was a freshman she had a good year and we've been waiting since that time for her to play up to her potential and this seems to be the year. She's taken on a leadership role with our team. It wasn't quite expected, but she's stepped into the role.

Jim Calhoun

When he got a rebound, nobody was going to take it away from him. For a freshman to go in and make that kind of a stand is very significant.

Brad Childress

We've always spread it around. All the guys give you a little something different. And I think fresh legs are important.

Desarae Garland

When I was a freshman living in the dorms I went home a lot, but now that I live off-campus I really can't stay home for a long period of time.

Mitch Metcalf

We're going to play around with keeping the show fresh and creative, but the game is going to stay the same and real people who have interesting stories are going to be at the core.

John Calipari

We've got a young team, freshmen and sophomores and Rodney. But we've got a competitive group.

Keke Palmer

I really look up to Will Smith. He's internationally known, and people know him from everything. I don't know any kid who hasn't seen and liked Fresh Prince, or you'll like one of his movies or his music. He's perfect, and he's done everything. That's my dream: to be internationally known.

Mike Soule

At first, everyone was upset with (cover charges) and we had a little backlash. But now we hardly ever hear about it.

Rokia Traore

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

Jan Egeland

They had hardly any roads at all and now they are gone.

Steve Anderson

There was hardly any rain in November, but Mother Nature likes to have things in balance, so she's making up for lost time.

Ingo Steuer

No questions please. We have hardly been able to train.

John Majdoch

These days, the witches are hardly old crones with twisted noses. They've got fishnets and you'd just want to jump in their cauldrons.

Scott McKenzie

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

Danny Murphy

Every day, you have to be ready for anything. But we've been doing it so long ago, there's hardly anything we haven't seen. We're set for any problem.

Russell Feingold

At such a time it would just seem hardly justified to schedule a pay raise for members of Congress.

Armstrong Williams

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

Tom Bittman

Where I do my word processing, how I collaborate, maintaining my social network . . . those things are shifting away from Microsoft.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Mitch Metcalf

It's the loneliest night of the week for network television and television in general.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

Bethany Mota

I really utilize all of my social networking sites.

Robert Scoble

People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.

E. B. White

The most vulnerable part of the network are the undersea pipelines.

Chris Morris

Now if you have a wireless network that won't connect, well, you need someone on-site.

Edward Lear

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

Betty Friedan

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

Bill Gates

Convert bad news to good news.

Bob Schieffer

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Chandra Levy

abused by the typhoon of the news media.

Joey Skaggs

They don't want the public to question their credibility as an investigative news source.

Bryan Robson

It's very disappointing news because everything was agreed,

Stephen Kay

It's obvious Al-Jazeera is probably not the most objective news organization.

Bryan Colangelo

It's not the news we wanted to hear,

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Alan Watts

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Alan Colmes

People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly. This has upset the 'media establishment' but has made Fox the most powerful name in the news. I'm proud that Hannity & Colmes has contributed to this success, an achievement that has been often dissected by liberal media pundits who argue that Sean is more aggressive than I am and therefore dominates the show.

Alan Ball

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

Bobby Robson

I took a risk in putting Dyer on because I trusted our public. They didn't let me down,

Tyler Oakley

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.

Michael Rodgers

The situation is serious. That's why I recommended no travel for this year. We've been putting this off, and the situation hasn't improved.

Gene Luen Yang

The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.

Maxwell

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

Philip Kerr

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Ernest Borgnine

Even radar was unheard of when I first went into the service. Then suddenly, they started putting bedsprings up on the tops of ships.

Joe Klein

We're putting our teams together now. If he comes, it's a bonus.

Katie Findlay

I don't know how to exist before 9 A.M. And without coffee, I'm not classified as a human. Actually, I could be regarded as a threat.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory

Isoroku Yamamoto

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

Stephen East

They're serving a need much more than a want than say a Toll or a higher-end builder.

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()

Clarence Fountain

And when you are serving the Lord, you go where he takes you without fear.

Reggie McNeal

Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.

John Milton

Freely we serve, because freely we love.

Caroline Norton

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

Oswald Chambers

God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.

Leonardo da Vinci

I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

Richard Feinberg

If you're not serving the customer, you better be serving someone who is serving the customer.

John Milton

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

Leonardo da Vinci

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

Bill Owens

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

Peter Shaffer

Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.

Henri Poincare

Experiment is the sole source of truth.

Zadie Smith

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

Doug MacLean

Absolutely, absolutely, totally, totally false. I'm wondering how to say it any stronger.

Tom Petersen

They (the stores) don't have to be totally upscale, but we need some better things.

Helene Cixous

It is totally different from my philosophical work,

Shinji Mori

It's two totally different things. There was nothing wrong until I got injured.

Alan Mosley

This is totally unacceptable. This is going to have to be fixed, and right now.

Craig Venter

Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Joe Laud

This is a training issue. This is totally a training issue.

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Ona Solomon

I'm a woman of mystery. I can do anything but skinny.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.