Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Victor Penman

He's definitely considered a leader among fire chiefs in the industry. His emphasis . . . has always been to ensure our crews are performing with the highest level of professionalism and have the best training and equipment.

Ramsey Clark

He seemed at peace with himself. He realizes the danger. He may be fatalistic about the outcome, but he's certainly unbowed and maybe when he gets into court he gets ... more emotional than he does among his lawyers.

David Gans

His reputation is overblown among Deadheads, who can be uncritically admiring,

Chris McGinnis

Historically and also the current outlook is for Las Vegas and Orlando to be neck and neck among American tourists.

Bob Paduchik

Ken Blackwell is either a huge hypocrite or very incompetent.

Peter Greenaway

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative - either intellectually or viscerally - in the films one makes.

Shimon Peres

It can't happen as long as there is still shooting. Either there is shooting or there are talks,

Steve Smith

He can play either position equally well, and I don't often say that about guards. I hear that and when I see most kids, I think they become one or the other. He can honestly play either. And that helps.

Richard Berner

Greenspan's remarks will be significant, either because of what he does say or what he doesn't say, ... They will move rates higher this year but the timing of that may have changed.

Brad McClellan

He should either be running for office or be an impartial elections officer and not try to fool the voters that he can be both.

Clint Hurdle

Hitting a Major League baseball. I wasn't that good at either one. I think I've got the marriage thing nailed down now and that took me three tries. I know I can't hit the fastball anymore.

Jerry Falwell

It could have gone either way, right to the last minute of the game. I think the players took something very positive from that game, that if they play up to their potential, they can be a competitive squad.

John Hobbs

It could have gone either way. It was pretty volatile there for a while. Thank God it didn't turn out to be a free-for-all.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Al Borges

He did a wonderful job considering he found out less than an hour before the game. We tried to keep it as low maintenance as we could.

Aaron Boone

He's a good dude. I found that out right away. Obviously, he's going to be a good player, and he knows how to act, too. I want to be there to help him out. But I don't want to overkill him with Johnny Veteran stuff. We're all men here and we're all teammates here. Plus, I like him.

Emanuel Brown

He's a senior and he wanted to finish, but unfortunately the trainers didn't want him to get up until they found out if it was muscle or bone.

Justin Scott

He's a very good player, a very good player. I found out he couldn't go right, so toward the end of the game I tried to make him go right. We tried to go around screens and help a lot.

Kyle Lowry

He shot horrible -- not horrible, but not as well -- last night, and we still found a way to win. This is what this team is made of. If everything is not going our way, we still are going to find a way to get the win.

Jan Roberts

He's a wonderful person. He's a positive role model for all these kids. He found his passion and worked for it.

Navtej Sarna

There is need for genuine dialogue. The solution has to be found by the people of Nepal through a peaceful but political settlement. We are ready to help in any way we can.

Terry Ryan

Kenny Williams has always been very gracious in talking about us, which is flattering. And he says he's doing things that we have done and so forth, and that's awfully gracious of him. But he's done a wonderful job over there.

Janusz Bednarski

Greg Howard was one of the heroes on the men's side.

Siegfried Sassoon

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Albert Schweitzer

There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.

Robert McClure

Many of these corporations are really unsung heroes in the communities they serve," ()

Lois Frankel

We have learned who our true role models and heroes are in our society.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott L. Lowell

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Felicity Huffman

I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything. What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall.

Simon Baker

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

Chan Gailey

I told the team there's a lot worse places to go than San Francisco. It's historical. It's something they'll remember the rest of their lives.

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

John Duncan

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

Dr. Seuss

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Margaret Turnbull

If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

William Blake

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Waylon Jennings

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Samuel Johnson

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Sachin Tendulkar

From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

Wynton Marsalis

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

Richard P. Feynman

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Rick Riordan

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

William Morris

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Rebecca Stead

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Roald Dahl

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Richard Dawkins

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Robin Williams

We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

Woodrow Wilson

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

Samuel Beckett

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

Twyla Tharp

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

Wendell Willkie

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

Wolfgang Schauble

Those who constantly qualify everything and have no opinions of their own are ultimately just as incapable of tolerance.

Jose Serrano

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

Narendra Modi

The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.

James Joyce

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

James Goldsmith

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.