Famous Quotes & Sayings

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

I have to laugh when I think of the first cigar, because it was probably just a bunch of rolled up tobacco leaves

Ken Beck

I'm meeting a bunch of friends. We're going to celebrate the victory and then watch the riots in pioneer square.

James Hansen

I'm probably the hardest head of the bunch (of nine commissioners),

Rasmus Lerdorf

I'm OK with procedural code, and the web is a top-down type of problem. It makes sense to me that you have HTML, you spit out a bunch of HTML, then you call a function to do something and then call another function.

Steve Letarte

I'm just going to be me. I've learned from a bunch of great people and now I'm just going to be me.

Bill Maris

If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.

Hu Hairong

I had to interview a whole bunch like that today. They are all locals from single-child families. Only a few of them left me with good impression.

Dalila Eshe

I'm very excited to have an opportunity to be in the tournament. We feel like we've accomplished a lot, but we have a bunch more to get done.

Jeff Ross

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

Jim Hall

Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.

Kathleen Blanco

This is a tragedy of great proportions, greater than any we've see in our lifetimes, ... We know many lives have been lost.

Jay Wright

This is a tough night for Allan Ray right now. A tough night. But there's been great nights, too -- a lot of them. You have to take them both.

Suzanne Yoculan

This is a testament to the hard work by this team. We could feel the pressure on our heels, and we had to perform. That was such a great competition.

Jose Garcia

This is a special treat. This has been a great season for them. So this is a little different than normal.

Rick Carlisle

This isn't any news flash. He's been a great player. Now he's a great playoff player.

Lachlan McIntosh

This is not unusual. I think we'll have a great slate.

Jim Irsay

This is not something you want to do too often, but what a great opportunity it is for the franchise. I know this is something Indianapolis and Indiana can be proud of. It's something to be out here and having that worldwide presence.

Harry Stonecipher

This is not only a great merger, it's a great time for a merger,

Kevin Kelly

This is really cool. It's great to see all the little kids.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Don Henley

The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.

Dwayne Johnson

When you walk up to opportunities door, don't knock it... Kick that B*tch in, smile and introduce yourself

Claudia Cardinale

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

Dalai Lama

It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.

Dalai Lama

Each of us has the potential to contribute ... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

Nick Swisher

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.

Francis Thompson

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.

Ian Mcewan

What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.

Hugh Kingsmill

The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.

Hugh Kingsmill

Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action.

Horace Greeley

The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

Horace Walpole

My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them.

Horace Mann

Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.

Horace Mann

Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Thomas Carlyle

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Thomas Carlyle

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

Thomas Carlyle

... There is always hope in a man who actually and earnestly works.

Thomas Carlyle

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

Thomas Carlyle

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Thomas Carlyle

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

Thomas Carlyle

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Thomas Carlyle

A man perfects himself by working.