Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Johanns

announced without the benefit of a public hearing as to necessity and reasonableness ...

Joe Girardi

Anything is possible, but we pretty much have the 25-man roster. We probably won't announce it until we leave, in case something comes up.

Taiji Yoshida

Anyone can announce a plan, the real challenge is implementing it. Stringer is coming from the outside, and he only spends part of his time in Japan.

Taiji Yoshida

Anyone can announce a plan, the real challenge is implementing it.

Lindsey Williams

The talks (with the union) are continuing and they have been constructive, but we don't have anything definitive to announce yet.

Edith Schaeffer

The thing about real life is that important events dont announce themselves. Trumpets dont blow, drums dont beat to let you know you are going to meet the most important person youve ever met, or read the most important thing you are ever going to read, or have the most important conversation you are ever going to have, or spend the most important week you are ever going to spend. Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it. You dont usually have a chance to get excited about that sort of thingahead of time!

Jim Curran

I've been a fan forever. My brother lives here, so when the bowl was announced I said, 'God is telling me to go to Phoenix.

Clive Woodward

I've announced a strong team with over 300 caps between them,

Erik Nielsen

I waited and waited for a year and a half for them to announce who won, ... Jim Jeffords' office had to get involved. But, once they did select me, things worked a lot more smoothly.

Carl Edwards

The other day I woke up and went down to my truck at my apartment and somebody had written: 'Go Tony. No. 20' on my truck,

Fernando Eimbcke

I started out with an idea that was really kind of silly. I liked the idea of four people sitting in an apartment with nothing to do on a Sunday morning. That doesn't sound very exciting. The challenge for me was to make it as involving as possible.

Robert Kiyosaki

An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.

Mark Margolis

I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear.

Paul Holland

It does have all sorts of implications in the lives of these kids as they're trying to grow up. Whether it's a job, looking to rent an apartment it complicates life in so many ways.

Robert Krueger

For our industrial customers, our insurance rates are pretty low. We just don't see quite the same effect as an office building or retail or apartments or something from that standpoint. We've got much bigger issues like land prices going up, construction costs going up and things of that nature.

Rick Stone

I believe he was living in an apartment with the bare essentials.

Judy Swanson

Here you have a couple, and it requires both of them to work to make ends meet. If you want to get a job in Myrtle Beach you can, but it may not pay enough to get an apartment or a house. It's discouraging, and that's the major problem.

Kate Christensen

In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.

Mollie Mayfield

After a week, we had a lot of black marks from track shoes on them. It causes an abrasion that slows down the surface, so our varsity team is not playing on as fast of courts as they may encounter.

Joe Brancato

The upper part of the Clarion River was pretty polluted about 15 years ago. It has since been cleaned up and now there's a black fly problem.

Aziz Ansari

Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?

Ed Smith

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.

Brian Knutson

Brain imaging gives us the hope of opening up the black box.

Ed Renwick

Blacks got used to winning, and whites got used to losing. Now with all of this upheaval, some blacks think that maybe they're not going to win, and some whites think they're going to win.

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Candy Price

Black is always a good investment ... You will be able to wear the black you buy now with the trends of the future.

Christopher Reynolds

Black holes are perhaps the most exotic objects to impinge on the cosmic consciousness. They are formed when matter such as that from a dying massive star collapses in calamitously under its own gravity, forming a region of space in which the gravitational field is so strong that it swallows all matter and radiation that come near it.

Brian Aldiss

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

Spalding Gray

I think of my father and how confused he was by me. He understood my love for theater, and he understood that New York City was the only place that it was happening in America, really, in any live way.

Amber Heard

I was interested in [Hunter S. Thompson novels]. The rebel in me fell in love with it, and the artist in me was confused by it, and interested and turned on. Ever since, his work has meant different things to me, at different times, and I still get new meaning out of it and appreciate it, in a different way. His work is very visceral, and you can take from it what you want, in various moments of your life.

Andy Rooney

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

Sam Harris

If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer seek each other as opposites, but simply as members of a family and neighbors, and will unite as human beings, in order to simply, earnestly, patiently, and jointly bear the heavy responsibility of sexuality that has been entrusted to them.

Ted Rall

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

Margaret Geller

When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I once said I was a cosmologist, but they started asking me about makeup, and the title 'astronomer' gets confused with astrologer. Now I say I make maps.

Max Greenfield

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.

Guy Clark

I see you're wearing glasses. I never saw you play with glasses before.

Aimee Mullins

At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

Davy Jones

I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.

Swami Vivekananda

Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

Mark Cuban

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

Oscar Wilde

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Jennifer Egan

I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

Mark Millar

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.

Krysten Ritter

I've watched 'Clueless' as many times as humanly possible. Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards.

Kerry Stokes

I love Perth. It is my home, and no matter where I am in the world, Perth is where my heart is.

Peter Davis

I suited the music to particular images on the film.

Halle Berry

It's scary to be that vulnerable on film, ... This movie was all about shedding inhibitions for most of the cast, really, you know, saying things and presenting images that were risky because you never know how people are going to take them.

Bruce Jackson

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Ciara

Anything is possible for women, including being a presidential nominee.

Charles Ruff

The president has always urged everyone to tell the truth,

Dan Bartlett

The president encountered and witnessed traffic for the first time in three years on the way to the airport.

Robert Fogel

The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Bruce Goldstein

Before Clara Bow, all the screen sirens were kind of exotic.

Robert Anthony

Do something whatever you do, it will be better than sitting and hoping things will improve.

Soren Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

John Steinbeck

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.

Scott Young

I was sitting over there and all of a sudden bam, bam, bam.

Rosa Parks

she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.

Jill Clayburgh

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Jeremy Miller

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

Sandy Alderson

I don't think I'll be sitting with Walt this week,

Bill Richardson

we'll all end up sitting in the dark.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Lance Henriksen

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

Michael Myers

I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number.

Brad Radke

I think these two teams have a lot in common. We can look out and say, 'Look what the A's can do with a small payroll' and we're in the same boat.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Ang Lee

I thought it was a small work of love. I never thought it would play like this.

Milton McGregor

You'll have big winners, and you'll have small winners.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Charles Evers

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Alec Baldwin

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Anne Sexton

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

Anthony Hopkins

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

William Shakespeare

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Charles Barkley

My wife's married. I'm not.

Anton Chekhov

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

Craig Finn

My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.

Ben Horowitz

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

Dave Pelzer

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

Dustin Hoffman

I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't do that.' I didn't know how he did it. I've never seen anything like that. It's like this feat, this Rodin sculpture to me. It's like hearing an opera singer and the tears go down your face because it's not human what they're doing. It's like sounds of heaven.

Ace Frehley

Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

Alison Pill

There's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner.

Alfred Molina

My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience.